Category: IP Strategy
How to estimate “user principle” damages in an IP infringement dispute
| 19th May 2021
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 why! If a court …
World Intellectual Property Day 2021
Robert Games | 26th April 2021
World Intellectual Property Day 2021 – This year we’re celebrating IP & SMEs Every April 26, we celebrate World IP Day to recognise the role that intellectual property rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity. This year Albright IP and …
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 …
Opposing A European Patent On A Tight Schedule
| 18th February 2021
What do you do when you are up against a competitor’s European patent, and you have minimal time to oppose or revoke the patent in order to operate freely? You know the story – you’ve geared up for an all-important product launch, and take one l …
Where’s your IP at?
| 18th February 2021
Julia House, Director and UK & European Trade Mark Attorney at Albright IP talks about their IP portal and the challenges companies face when managing multiple brands… Put simply, if you don’t know what you’ve got, then you can’t make it work for y …
Why should you patent an invention?
| 18th February 2021
When a prospective client approaches Albright IP, they usually have a reasonably clear idea about what they would like us to do. If they have a new innovation which they regard as an invention, then what they really want is a granted patent to …
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 …
Winning An Opposition Against A European Patent
| 19th December 2020
This brief case study provides an overview of strategies for winning an opposition submitted against a European Patent. The statistics for opposition of a European patent before the European Patent Office (EPO) suggest that the process can be co …
How Patents Can Let You Make Money from Covid-19
| 3rd December 2020
If you watched the Downing Street press briefing on Monday 23rd November 2020 then, amongst the utterances of “jolly” and “alas” from the UK Prime Minister, you may have noticed a comment from Prof Andrew Pollard. Prof Pollard – director …
