Scotland is fortunate to have an abundance of world class higher education facilities within a relatively small geographic space. They innovate from almost every facet of their research and as patent attorneys we are privileged to receive advance notice of an array of world changing technologies. We have helped protect everything from vaccines and medicines, to engineering and software solutions from within the AI and energy sectors.

While Scotland’s research landscape is world class, a recent European Patent Office report found that 45% of all UK university derived European patent applications came from just four UK universities – Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College and University College London. It is perhaps not surprising that these universities dominate the UK’s higher education intellectual property (IP) landscape, but with a buoyant........

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