by Frederick Noble | Mar 15, 2022 | Albright in the News
Nothing makes IP lawyers feel more unloved than the overwhelming propensity of politicians, journalists, and indeed practically everyone else to get their intellectual property rights mixed up and talk about “patenting a brand” or “copyrighting an idea”. So it is nice...
by Frederick Noble | Mar 1, 2022 | Infringement, IP Strategy, Patents
I have always had a bit of a problem with the question “what’s the probability of success?”. Is this patent going to be granted? Are we going to win this proposed litigation? Clients quite reasonably want to know, and most people accept there is some uncertainty. But...
by Frederick Noble | Aug 17, 2021 | News, Patents
The Royal Mail have launched a set of ten postage stamps today celebrating the inventions that drove the industrial revolution. We don’t send a lot of post nowadays (this probably has something to do with the transatlantic cable, celebrated on one of the first-class...
by Frederick Noble | May 19, 2021 | Infringement, IP Strategy
Although this article is entitled ‘How to estimate ‘user principle’ damages in an IP infringement dispute’, I did consider calling this ‘When someone borrows your horse without asking’. Please read on, and hopefully you will see...
by Frederick Noble | Apr 10, 2021 | Infringement, IP Strategy
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 injunction – a...
