Category: Other Law
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 …
“Call a Cab” …the iconic London taxi is not a valid registered Trade Mark?!
| 12th February 2018
The future of the hackney carriage, black cab or London taxi, hangs in the balance as a dispute surrounding whether the shape of the traditional London black cab is a valid registered Trade Mark. In November 2017, the Court of Appeal uphe …
Marc Reflects: What 2018 holds for innovation?
| 19th January 2018
Innovation can come in waves, with one big innovative earthquake spawning a number of aftershock inventions. There would of course be no ‘light bulb’ moment without the invention of the light bulb. What might 2018 bring in terms of innovation? …
The Unitary Patent System and How It Affects You
| 12th December 2017
*FOR THE WHOLE ARTICLE PLEASE CLICK THE DOWNLOAD BUTTON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE* In Brief: Unitary Patent When the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (Agreement) eventually comes into force, a unitary patent will run alongside national …
Which countries do the most UK Patenting?
| 15th November 2017
If there was a Patent Olympics focused just on UK patent filings, which countries would come out on top? This [very] contrived question is answered by some data released in August 2017 by the UK Intellectual Property Office about UK patent filings in 2 …
How to Lose your British Patent (three times)
| 8th November 2017
Losing patent protection is generally undesirable from the perspective of a patent owner, especially if you haven’t maximised the market potential of your product. So, when the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) grants you a patent, you wouldn’t …
Patents – Keep a Secret or File a Patent?
| 26th October 2017
Something that comes up time and time again when new inventors are thinking about how best to protect their idea is whether a patent is worthwhile. Often, there is some hesitation as to whether the trade secrets of Coca-Cola and KFC are v …
Extra [claims fees]! Extra [page fees]! New UK IPO fees – Read all about it!
| 16th October 2017
We may have come a long way since that line was first shouted (on a New York City street?), but this article really is all about the extras. In this case, it is extra claims fees and extra page fees that are particularly noteworthy, and s …
‘What is a Trade Mark’ – redefined: owning a Trade Mark just got better
| 4th October 2017
The practice reforms introduced by the EU Trade Mark Amendment Regulation on 1st October 2017 broaden the scope of the rights that a trademark owner can claim and assert. This refers to the implementation of the second round of reforms at the European …
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 …
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