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It is possible to waive the name of the designer when filing a European Community Design, but you should be sure that you have the rights to the design
Should the AI sector be given freedom to use other people’s creations in the pursuit of ever more sophisticated AI models? Should the rights of human authors be paramount? What is the right balance?
Apparently, it’s that time of year – lots of our clients are receiving scam requests for payment to central European firms. Let’s see who’s on the naughty list at the moment:
What should you do if your patent comes under attack? Simple – contact your patent attorney at Albright IP! That is exactly what one of our clients did, and we are pleased to have successfully defended his granted patent GB2502993 against a spurious attack by the former patent licensee, Bollard Proof, as decided by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO).
This article was first published in October 2013, and has now been updated to included new relevant material In a previous article, I detailed the UK position on copyright, and how it arises automatically. With Nintendo having aggressively targeted a college student...
BBC Intellectual Property can be a difficult topic to publicize, so credit is due to the BBC for continuing to keep the fundamentals of the patent system in the public (Dragon’s) eye year after year. Auntie Beeb’s mission statement is to inform, educate...
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 upheld the January...
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? 1) Your life will...
*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 patents and the...
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 2015 and 2016....
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 necessarily...