GB Patent Number: 2483006
Granted to: Awarepoint Corporation
I was really quite shocked last week when listening to a news report about ‘never events’. These are serious surgical blunders which are preventable and should never have happened. Examples of such ‘never events’ include operating on the wrong body part and…
White space technologies could potentially be launched in the UK towards the end of 2013, says Ed Richards, Ofcom chief executive
It seems that hardly another day goes by without another global consumer electronics giant filing a patent lawsuit against another, writes Alan MacDougall, a Chartered Patent Attorney and partner at IP advisers Mathys & Squire LLP.
UK Government’s Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has approached distributor Farnell as part of its plan to increase awareness of RoHS and WEEE recasts (RoHS 2 and WEEE 2)
Small and medium-sized businesses should not let an expectation that their invention will have a limited commercial lifespan stop them from obtaining patent protection and benefiting from tax relief linked to the incoming Patent Box.
Guest columnist Peter Winnington-Ingram, senior site director at Plexus, looks at the impact the recently adopted RoHS 2.0 EU Directive will have on the development of medical systems
Henar Dyson, a solicitor at law firm, Thomson Snell & Passmore, outlines the legal obligations of firms in conforming to the WEEE Directive on the disposal of electronic products and packaging waste
Is it real or wilful ignorance that permits us to foul our own planet with Styrofoam cups and rusted batteries? Would we curb our wasteful activities if only we knew the error of our ways? Technophiles from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think so, and to equip the public with the knowledge we need to change our behaviour they’ve tagged our technological trash with GPS chips and tracked it across the globe. “Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn’t end up,” says Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT Senseable City Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.