Moderator: Nigel Clarke, expert in patent information, EPO

Guest: Sonsoles Hernanz, patent examiner, EPO

Advances in metal processing have given countless enterprises a decisive technological advantage ever since the emergence of the first Bronze Age civilisations. More recently, welding even entered the field of plastics. Sonsoles Hernanz has the latest, including on how virtual reality helps to train welders, and how welding enables new products to be created using solid-state metal joining.