Combination of the two would create £1.3 billion university technology investment company

Imperial Innovations and the European Investment Fund are each to put £24.75M into the University College London fund UK, which will be managed by the VC firm Albion Ventures

In an unexpected change of heart, the US government has reversed its previous and long-held stance that genes can be patented.

The UK Intellectual Property Office has kicked off a year long research programme into intellectual property and its value to the economy.

Genomics is turbo-charging traditional plant and animal breeding. But can new varieties get patent protection, ask Nicholas Jones and Rachel Wallis of Withers & Rogers LLP.

The World Intellectual property Organisation has launched WIPO GOLD, a free, on-line global intellectual property reference resource.