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Quick show of hands. How many of you thought an invention must work before you can get a patent? Thought so. You’d be wrong, as a well-publicised case in the U.S. recently laid bare. Science [...]

As memories of Christmas 2021 fall away as quickly as the unseasonably warm New Year weather, perhaps it’s time to step into winter. And as you do, check your footing. Or more to the point, what [...]

Who’d want to be a visual artist these days. Just as we might caution a child browsing the internet not to click on certain things because you can’t ‘unsee’ them, so it is with artists. All [...]

Every so often a case comes along in our little corner of law that simply makes you wonder if some folk in business have ever heard of intellectual property rights. And so, one came this month. [...]

And there was light. In this version of Genesis a blue and white light was created. Not only could you use it to see but it disinfected all upon which it shone. Pretty handy in a hospital [...]

Being an innovator and a creative artist is all well and good until someone steals your work. Worse still, is being at the forefront of utilising new technology or new ways to deliver your arty [...]

Here’s a cautionary tale for those who might think it’s all fine and dandy to destroy what you own without infringing another’s intellectual property rights or impugning their reputation. Turns [...]

Mystifying as it may be to some folk, we are living in a world where the cult of celebrity reigns supreme. Some view celebrity-status as a legitimate career path to riches, fame, influence, and [...]

Enid Blyton never wrote this Famous Five book. But it is a true story – of sorts. Let me explain. It all began not so long ago and, in a land, not so far away (here in the UK actually) in an art [...]

“You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you’ve got music.” The words of Simon Richie. Or Sid Vicious to me and you, the late departed iconic front man of The Sex Pistols. Curl your lip, gel your [...]