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Tesla Model S Author Paul Sableman Licence Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 generic Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert Yesterday I attended the eCommerce Show North  at EventCity Manchester.  One of the exhibitors was Tesla Inc.  Two of the company's cars were on display and I took a peek inside one of them.  The car had a steering wheel and many of the instruments that would be expected on any other car but I could find only one pedal and there was a large screen displaying the locations of the nearest charging points. At first, I was surprised to find a luxury car manufacturer among the developers, fintech,  marketing and social media consultancies, private equity and business angel investors but then I realized that logistics are essential to electronic commerce. Goods purchased over the internet have to be delivered. The optimum means of delivery are autonomous electric vehicles. Those are the things that Tesla develops and manufactu...

Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert As I noted yesterday in Comptroller visits the EPO   27 March 2018 NIPC News, British companies and inventors applied for 5 313 European patents last year according to the European Patent Office's  Annual Report 2017   which was a 2.4% increase over the 5,188 of the previous year and the 4th straight year of increase.  This is with with an increase in PCT applications from the UK from 5,502 in 2016 to an estimated 5,567 in 2017 (see  PCT international applications by origin   on the WIPO website). There has also been a 9.3% increase in international trade mark applications through the Madrid system (see  Madrid international applications by origin ) and a small increase in design applications under the Hague agreement to which the UK has recently acceded (see  Hague international applications by origin ). It is probably too early to speculate on the reasons for this increase in filing activi...