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Mapping the commercial landscape for quantum technologies

03 Dec 2018

As a second generation of quantum devices begins to move out of physics labs and into the marketplace, patent attorney Andrew Fearnside offers a tour through the developing commercial landscape, with a particular focus on how this landscape compares to funding programmes currently under way in the UK and beyond

Figure 1: Mapping the patent landscape
Mapping the patent landscape: the distribution of patents in a dataset of 9020 relevant patents, based on relatedness of text. (Courtesy: Questel 2018 and Patent Seekers Limited 2018)
Albert Einstein never really reconciled himself to a quantum-mechanical world. “The more success t

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Andrew Fearnside gained a PhD in theoretical atomic physics from the University of Durham, UK, and is now a UK and European patent attorney, specializing in quantum technologies, at the Manchester, UK-based intellectual property firm Appleyard Lees, e-mail andrew.fearnside@appleyardlees.com
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