+44 (0)1242 691 801
Speak to a UK and European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney
Do I have to identify the designer?
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
For any business, taking out insurance to cover itself from theft, damage or negligence is common practice. However, with up to 80% of a company’s assets made up of IP, many are not adequately protecting themselves. Robert Games, Managing...
New ideas are vital for the success of start-ups, as much as they are fundamental for the sustainability of any business. When you have a great new idea and you develop it into a business case, it seems natural to widely publicise it among the...
As part of our continued growth we have recently purchased and moved into a new head office, County House in Cheltenham. The new premises have allowed us to co locate with our sister product design and production company, DUKU - creating a...
On Thursday this week, the High Court ruled that Prime Minister May’s government cannot use crown prerogative powers to activate Article 50 to start the Brexit process. This means that members of parliament will have to vote on whether or not...
Read this list of words: comprising consisting including having The list has a few more to add (scroll to the end for some more), but for this brief article, let’s focus on these four for the time being, since it illustrates the point. We’re...
We provide a lot of patent advice and guidance to many designers, inventors, engineers and entrepreneurs. There are a number of common questions or points which, due to a general lack of education regarding intellectual property (IP), are asked...
You might think that, with Samsung’s exploding phones and Apple ordered to pay a €13 billion Irish tax bill, these two technology giants would have more important things to worry about than design patents. But with about $400 million on the...
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics has been announced, and has been split between three eminent, and, as the papers like to point out, British-born, professors: David Thouless; Duncan Haldane; and Michael Kosterlitz. The award has been made for...
