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The UK has voted to leave the European Union, but how does this affect patents? Patents can be obtained in the UK via two separate means, either directly from the UK intellectual Office (UKIPO) which is governed by the UK Patents Act, or from the European Patent Office. Both organisations are unaffected by the UK leaving the EU. The European Patent Office is not an EU organisation, and already has members who are not member states of the EU such as Turkey, Norway and Switzerland.

The Global Innovation Index 2018 report released in July 2018 ranked Singapore fifth among 126 innovative nations around the world. Singapore retained its first place ranking in Asia for the fifth year running and is only found to be less innovative than Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. Singapore's strong performance in the Global Innovation Index is attributed to the various government initiatives and programmes launched to spur and protect innovation in the city-state.

The European Patent Office has released its 2011 statistics, according to which the number of new patent applications filed has reached an all-time high of 244,437. Some 24% of the new applications filed in 2011 originate from the US (28% in 2007), and 32% come from Asia (25% in 2007). EPO member states account for 38% of all filings (40% in 2007). Some 33,181 applications were filed by German applicants, and 12,107 by applicants in France. Switzerland comes in third. The number of UK-based applications has dropped by 9.4% compared to the previous year to a total of 6,464.

In an exclusive survey, MIP reveals the US and European firms with the most IP practitioners

In-house sources say creating fake profiles on social media has helped them lure unsuspecting consumers into hearing the anti-counterfeiting message

A conference this week highlighted the different approaches that courts take to expert evidence in Europe. Will Europe’s new unified patent court (UPC) make things simpler, or more complicated?