Category: Tech

MC Marks & Clerk More Marks & Clerk is one of the UK’s foremost firms of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys. Our attorneys and solicitors are wired directly into the UK’s leading business and innovation economies. Alongside this we have offices in 9 international locations covering the...

And no, tech debt is not the CIO’s problem… One of the striking insights from AlixPartners’ Digital Disruption Survey 2024 was the correlation between a company’s projected growth and the strength of its legacy systems. Of the businesses that felt confident about how well they were managing legacy – either because their legacy systems are ...

Organisations continue to struggle to find practical applications for artificial intelligence, even as the hype around the technology continues at pace. However, one left-field suggestion to getting the most out of AI has come from experts at Airwalk Reply, with the firm recommending in a recent thought-piece on its website that companies might try “treating...

RFID GLOBAL INNOVATION LEADER PERVASID SECURES £3.25 MILLION TO ACCELERATE GROWTH In its latest funding round, PervasID, a world leading innovator in RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology, has secured £3.25m, led by Parkwalk Advisors, the UK’s largest investor in university spinouts, and investment from two Maven-managed regional funds: the Finance Durham Fund established by...

British competition watchdog decides Alphabet’s partnership with AI startup Anthropic does not qualify for investigation The British competition regulator has handed Alphabet some welcome news on this side of the pond, even as Google faces a potential breakup of its business in the United States. On Tuesday the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced...

N NAVEX More NAVEX is trusted by thousands of customers worldwide to help them achieve the business outcomes that matter most. As the global leader in integrated risk and compliance management software and services, we deliver our solutions through the NAVEX One platform, the industry’s most comprehensive...

UK MPs will reportedly summon Elon Musk over X’s role in summer riots, as well as executives from TikTok and Meta A number of executives from high profile social networking platforms are to be summoned to appear before a UK parliamentary inquiry into their role over disinformation and harmful content and the summer riots. The...

In Marks & Clerk’s latest AI Report 2024, we consider the use of AI in creating a product design, which may be the subject of a Registered Design. However, even if the AI-generated output itself meets the requirements for being registered as a design, the question remains as to who may qualify as the owner...

The Albanese government has been put on the spot by a new agreement – which it has declined to join – signed by the United Kingdom and the United States to speed up the deployment of “cutting edge” nuclear technology. The original version of the British government’s press release announcing the agreement said Australia, among a...

Much of AI’s potential has yet to be imagined. But already we are seeing how it can: increase efficiency and productivity, enhance customer and employee experience, improve analytics and aid innovation. However, it’s no secret that AI has potential to be maliciously used to disrupt business. Assem Marat, Senior FI Underwriter at Starr Companies joins ...

New arrangement to accelerate battle-winning capabilities of the future and bolster collective security of UK, US and Australia. Hypersonic capabilities include long-range strike missiles capable of travelling faster than the speed of sound. Joint work represents a new level of collaboration between AUKUS partners. The development of hypersonic technology is to be accelerated under a...