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  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Special ReportCollaborative Innovation
    Silo-busting answers to business legal problems

    FT innovation award highlights 15 leading collaborative legal initiatives — and identifies three winners

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Marina Niforos
    The promising future of NFTs remains in a state of flux

    Non-fungible tokens may be disrupting art and gaming but a real revolution requires proper legal and regulatory debate

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    Carl Benedikt Frey
    How to escape innovation’s Great Stagnation

    Ideas have been getting more expensive to find, but accelerating remote collaboration will boost productivity

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special Report
    Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms

    The top firms for 2022 revealed. Plus: Russia’s patents grab; China flexes muscle across borders; nations urged to waive vaccine IP; green patents slow despite net zero goals; and the artificial intelligence debate

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Green patents slow as net zero deadlines edge closer

    Intellectual property offices globally are exploring how they can help the development of low-carbon technologies

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Inability to patent AI creations could hit business investment

    Companies could be incentivised to keep inventions as trade secrets

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Chinese courts flex intellectual property muscle across borders

    Anti-suit injunctions in telecom cases reflect growing assertiveness by rising superpower

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Magic Circle firms poach IP lawyers from US peers

    Partners offered above-the-odds pay and multiyear salary guarantees

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Nations urged to waive vaccine patents while drugmakers say rules are fair

    Only 1 per cent of the 10bn jabs delivered so far have been in low-income countries

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Russian patents grab deemed ‘act of war’

    Some lawyers also fear trademarks, copyright and even physical property could be next

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms 2022

    Clients and peers feed into research to create the latest listing of the continent’s top intellectual property firms

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Ukraine medicine IP waiver becomes ‘matter of life or death’

    Lawyer Olga Gurgula drafted a law to enable the local production of generic drugs for civilians and the military

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Could ‘testimonial discrepancies’ prove a powerful strategy for litigators?

    Palantir dispute playing out in German courts opens the door to using US evidence in European cases

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    How Waco became a patent litigation hotspot

    One judge is taking heat for making the central Texas town so popular with plaintiffs

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Azeem Azhar
    New technologies need political help to become the Model Ts of tomorrow

    Governments must actively nurture products down the experience curve if they are to benefit in the long term

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    Special Report
    The Business of Formula One

    After five years of Liberty Media ownership, Formula 1 has finally built momentum in America. Consensus was also reached on a fairer distribution of revenues, alongside the introduction of a budget cap. Meanwhile, the motorsport struck gold with Drive to Survive, a Netflix series credited with attracting new audiences.

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    News in-depthUK Inequality
    The UK looks to innovation hubs to help ‘level up’ left behind areas

    R&D partnerships involving universities and industry are being set up in Manchester, the West Midlands and Glasgow

  • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
    Esteve Almirall
    Why AI is everywhere except your company

    Uptake of artificial intelligence is slow, despite the hype. A professor explains

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Media
    Japanese studios fight back against pirates uploading 10-minute ‘fast movies’

    Companies claim copyright on condensed film versions that are popular with young viewers

  • Saturday, 14 May, 2022
    LexApple Inc
    iPod: technology’s ever changing beat Premium content

    Enduring love of retro will ensure portable music device’s survival even as US tech group discontinues it

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Tech-savvy legal professionals transform working habits

    The professionals highlighted here have developed new products and pioneered fresh skills in their firms

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Legal practitioners’ ideas boost business in the Asia-Pacific region

    The top 10 individuals featured below have looked beyond their specialisms to solve client demands

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers Awards 2022: the winners

    Awards highlights include: digitisation, enabling business, and the most innovative law firms and individuals

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Law firms challenged to take political stance on clients

    Questions over neutrality, globalisation and staff skills are keeping Apac leaders awake at night

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Stephen Bush
    A-B or not A-B? Why democracies struggle to innovate

    The difficulty in scientifically testing the efficacy of a policy incentivises governments to do everything at once

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