Author: Frederick Noble
Financial Compensation for Intellectual Property Infringement
| 10th April 2021
An intellectual property right is fundamentally a right to prevent competitors from using your brand, invention, design, copyright work, or whatever. But what if they do? A rightsholder who successfully sues for infringement will be able to obtain an …
Part 36 offers to settle
| 29th March 2021
Intellectual property litigation is costly and time-consuming. Commercially pragmatic parties will understandably want to avoid this cost and will seek to negotiate an end to the dispute. But what if one side just isn’t being reasonable? It can be diff …
Seven registered design disasters, and how to avoid them
Frederick Noble | 29th March 2021
Registered Designs are probably the least well-known of the Intellectual Property rights, but they can be a powerful and cost-effective tool, if used properly. A Registered Design protects the appearance of a product, and can be used to prevent …
Brexit: Picking Apart EU and UK Unregistered Designs
| 10th February 2021
Introduction Unregistered design rights in Europe and the UK can provide useful and quite powerful additional tools for the IP owner. Since the United Kingdom is no longer part of the European Union, and as such the United Kingdom is no longer covered …
Can a Machine Really Invent?
| 30th October 2020
As IP attorneys we have certainly seen a large increase in AI inventions over the past few years. It comes as no surprise then, that the UK Government wants to develop intellectual property law and policy to ensure that AI technology is supporte …
Registered design infringement – what gets compared and how similar does it have to be?
| 24th September 2020
Quite a few years ago now, we thought it would be fun to look at some decisions on registered design validity and infringement and put together a quiz. The quiz is still available on our website. For each of thirteen pairs of designs the questio …
Intellectual Property Enterprise Court expands its small claims track outside London
| 16th July 2019
Bristol Civil Justice Centre – photo depositphotos / jaceksphotos In the new IPEC guide issued last week, it was rather quietly announced that from October 2019 District Judges will be available in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Manchester and Ne …
Camborne Trevithick Day – 27th April 2019
| 18th April 2019
We are pleased to be supporting Camborne Trevithick Day on 27th April 2019. This annual celebration commemorates Camborne’s most famous son, prolific inventor Richard Trevithick. The first commercially useful steam engine was developed in 1712 by Tho …
How To Tell If a Patent is Being Enforced
| 26th April 2018
Today, a great deal of published information about patents and patent applications is readily available for free on the Internet. The EPO’s excellent “Espacenet” service allows you to search for and view information on the vast majority of patent publi …
Can we share our fans’ pictures on social media?
| 13th March 2018
Not the same truck, not the same trainee attorney, not the same copyright owner Social media is an important part of marketing a new product. If your business can successfully engage with its customers through Facebook, Instagram, Twitte …
