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Do you remember the Marlboro Man? A World without Trade Marks
On the 20 May 2016, standardised plain cigarette packaging became compulsory in the United Kingdom. On the second anniversary of...
How To Tell If a Patent is Being Enforced
Today, a great deal of published information about patents and patent applications is readily available for free on the Internet. The EPO’s...
Exam success for Cheltenham’s leading IP firm
Albright IP has been celebrating exam success this week following the news that three of our staff have passed board examinations. ...
Excluded Inventor Destroys European Patent
Broad Institute in the raging CRISPR patent battle with University of California (UC) recently lost their European patent through a simple...
Playing Chicken: NANDO’S v FERNANDO’S
If you are ‘gallinivorous’ (someone who eats chickens), it is fair to say you are having a rough time. In February, the national Kentucky Fried...
“BBC English” really? BBC’s Trade Mark infringement battle in China
The British Broadcasting Company (BBC), is the world’s most established national broadcaster, but it is the latest international company to...
“Call a Cab” …the iconic London taxi is not a valid registered Trade Mark?!
The future of the hackney carriage, black cab or London taxi, hangs in the balance as a dispute surrounding whether the shape of the...
Real or fake? How Trade Mark Registrations are protecting our online shopping
Almost all of us can remember, (Millennials excluded), when the online marketplace was born. It happened almost overnight. No...