A Healthy Business Environment for Life Science Success

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The latest Life Science strategy for Scotland continues the drive to ensure that Scotland is the location of choice for life sciences businesses, researchers, healthcare professionals and investors whilst increasing the sector’s contribution to Scotland’s economic growth. It’s a successful approach. The latest EY attractiveness survey shows Scotland attracted 122 FDI projects in 2016, remaining […]

Open The Box!

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It’s not often that HMRC gives you a present. Well, if they do then why not open the box? Since its introduction in 2013 HMRC has been encouraging companies with patented products or exclusive licenses to opt into its latest lucrative tax inventive – Patent Box. The incentive was introduced in order to promote the […]

Intellectual Property in Food and Drink packaging

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In the world of fast moving consumer goods (“FMCGs”), and in particular food and drink, whether a consumer buys one product or a rival brand involves numerous sub-conscious factors, many of which relate to packaging and appearance, and brand owners seek to have distinctive, attractive packaging for this purpose. But can it be protected to […]