John Kensett
Partner, Patents
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Mobility and disability devices
Patents can play a significant role in encouraging innovation tailored to people with disabilities. The design of mobility and disability devices often requires highly specialised engineering to solve complex challenges (like replicating human limb function for a prosthetic or enabling communication for the visually/hearing impaired). Patents provide protection and thus an incentive to invest in R&D for these assistive technologies.
Mobility and disability devices tend to integrate multiple technologies (for example: mechanical structures, electronic sensors, control software, and biomedical interfaces) and some of these can be excluded from patentability in various countries (computer programs are excluded in the UK, for example). Thus, thorough and careful legal work is required to ensure that your invention can be properly protected whilst navigating the exclusions that can exist in various countries.
At Dolleymores, our experienced patent attorneys possess the combination of technical understanding and legal expertise to both properly understand and therefore properly protect your inventions in this field. A few examples of the technology areas we have worked in include:
- Object detection systems for visually impaired.
- Transportation solutions for mobility equipment.
- Access control systems suitable for disabled users.
- Wheelchairs and wheelchair securing systems.
- Mobility scooters.
To discuss the best strategies for protecting your mobility- and disability-related innovations, please feel free to get in touch with one of our patent attorneys.
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Dolleymores is a firm of leading IP specialists ready to assist with a diverse range of IP matters, across many sectors. Working across the UK and internationally, our IP attorneys are equipped to help you protect your innovations, time and creativity now and for the future.
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