12/15/2025 11:28:37 AM M&C in the news: Green chemistry, grey areas – understanding patent protection for sustainable materials By M&C Newsroom In a recent article for the Chemical Industry Journal, Senior Associate, Peter Youle, examines how patent law applies to sustainable...
12/10/2025 10:52:07 AM Levelling-up Solar power By Tom Grendon In recent years, solar power has become a key part of the transition to a green economy, and to decarbonising the energy that we each...
12/9/2025 10:58:37 AM UK Government Announces UK-Germany Collaboration to develop EV technology By Rhyan Probert The UK Government have recently announced the IGNITED project, which aims to develop an ultra-compact, high-power electric drive system...
11/25/2025 2:36:38 PM Nuclear IP 2025 Trends: Continuing Chinese Dominance, US & South Korea Emerge By Bovey Zheng In 2023, Giles Pinnington considered filing trends for nuclear energy-related patents in the context of discussing the nuclear landscape...
11/11/2025 1:27:39 PM Building momentum: 5 years on from Glasgow COP26 By David Murray It’s been 5 years now since the World descended on Glasgow for COP26 and 10 years since the Paris Agreement, with delegates and political...
10/23/2025 9:30:39 AM Mechanochemical Recycling of Teflon® By Peter Youle Researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and Newcastle have developed a simple, mechanochemical method for processing...
10/15/2025 8:23:09 AM Pushing the boundaries of green innovation By Rhyan Probert In the world of solar-powered electric cars, nothing is more demanding or gruelling than a race: it’s a perfect way to stress test any...
10/9/2025 8:46:07 AM M&C in the news: Green chemistry is scaling, but is it patentable? By M&C Newsroom As industries accelerate their shift toward sustainability, the spotlight is turning to green chemistry – and the IP strategies that...
10/7/2025 8:37:41 AM Shining a (dim) light on cleaner water By Peter Youle Photocatalysts can be used to treat infected water by generation of short-lived radical species. However, these approaches typically...
10/3/2025 9:00:08 AM Are plastic regulations hindering innovation in sustainable alternatives? By Yann Robin As a passionate advocate for sustainable development, and as a patent attorney with a background in chemistry, I am naturally interested...
9/17/2025 8:11:37 AM UK Space Agency announces new Unlocking Space for Business projects By Yun-Hang Cho Phil Merchant It has been announced this week that six innovative projects have been selected for funding by the UK Space Agency through the Unlocking...
9/3/2025 1:14:07 PM Powering the future: How Echion’s technology is accelerating heavy industry electrification By George Christian If you’re reading this, you’re probably well aware of the commitment by the UK and many other countries to achieve net-zero carbon...
8/29/2025 9:34:07 AM Osmotic power plant opens By Peter Youle Apart from solar photovoltaics and fuel cells, nearly all electricity generation depends on spinning a turbine, usually by creating a...
8/18/2025 8:41:37 AM Can 3D printing save our oceans? By Susan Bradley In our recent 3D printing White Paper, we discussed how additive manufacturing has taken off in sectors such as automotive, aerospace and...
8/14/2025 9:51:38 AM AI Versus Cleantech - Collusion or Collision? By Simon Portman Artificial intelligence and cleantech innovation are both in the news a lot and both are the subject of significant and potentially...
7/22/2025 11:12:24 AM Why Skyportz is giving away its patented vertiport tech...... for free By Dominic O'Connor One of the fundamental rights a patent grants is the ability to exclude others from using your technology. So it may come as a surprise...