Farming & IP

With rising energy costs throughout the world, soaring food prices, global warming and the continuing conflict in Ukraine, the impact on agriculture and food production is profound. As food production is so fundamentally important, mankind has for centuries sought to improve farming methods and increase yields. For example, the invention of the hydroponic system (a…

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Patents and Renewable Energy

Since the Industrial Revolution we have burned increasing amounts of fossil fuels for energy. Coal, oil and gas have been the earth’s natural resources that the global population now relies upon to fuel industry and to power our homes, but times are changing. Global climate change, the increasing rise in oil and gas prices worldwide,…

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Viruses, Vaccines and IP

As scientists across the globe are frantically trying to devise a vaccine to protect us against COVID-19, we thought we would take a brief look back at the development of vaccines over history. As far back as 1796 the first Smallpox vaccine was developed by physician Edward Jenner. He discovered that by applying a small…

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