Category: Infringement
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 …
New Report on Design Infringement in the UK
| 6th December 2018
The UK IPO has recently published a report based on four-years of research into the attitudes and actions of ‘design-right owners’ when encountering infringement of their IP (intellectual property). The purpose of this research is to prov …
Financial Compensation for Intellectual Property Infringement
| 5th November 2018
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 ob …
Nikola v Tesla – patent trolling or genuine concern?
| 12th May 2018
Trucking start-up company Nikola have sued Tesla for $2 billion, alleging that Tesla have infringed their US design patents for an alternative fuel truck. Nikola is a start-up company founded by self-described serial entrepreneur Trevor M …
Playing Chicken: NANDO’S v FERNANDO’S
| 20th March 2018
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 Chicken (KFC) shortage temporarily closed almost two-thirds of the United Kingdom’s KFC branches. In …
Crime and punishment: Trademark Infringement in the grey market.
| 23rd November 2017
Whilst most incidences of trademark infringement are dealt with by the bringing of civil proceedings, it is an often-overlooked fact, that the Trade Marks Act 1994 (TMA 1994) prescribes for an action for trademark infringement in criminal law. C …
When is a McVitie’s not a McVitie’s, this really takes the biscuit: are we being tough enough on Copycat brands.
| 14th September 2017
The Biscuit Dilemma: How many times have you gone down to your local shop, picked up a packet of your favourite biscuits, in my case a packet of McVitie’s chocolate digestives, only to arrive home and to find that you’ve been ‘duped’ into purchasing a …
Our Services: The Company Names Tribunal
| 2nd August 2017
Here at Albright IP, we are always striving to find ways to help our clients be in control of valuable and effective intellectual property rights. In doing this we offer more than services relating to the drafting, filing, and prosecuting of patent, de …
Morrisons and Morrisinghs: a pragmatic approach to Trade Mark infringement
| 28th July 2017
In 2012, a shopkeeper, Jel Singh Nagra, decided to name his small convenience store ‘Singhbury’s’, setting the name against a bright orange colour scheme. The ‘Singhbury’s’ sign and associated colour scheme appeared eerily familiar, and perhaps, unsurp …
Unjustified Threats: What you need to know
| 16th June 2017
In the UK, a person who is threatened with an action for infringement of intellectual property rights (either Patent, Design right or Trademark) can sue the ‘threat maker’ where the threat is unjustified, or groundless. A threat would be considered unj …
