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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
Not too long ago, Cambodia became a ‘validation state’ for the European Patent Convention (discussed here). This gives the option to extend a European patent into Cambodia. Now Cambodia has introduced another change: a registration-style system based on Chinese...
Broad Institute in the raging CRISPR patent battle with University of California (UC) recently lost their European patent through a simple filing error. How did this come about? And how do you prevent this from happening to you? Let’s quickly look at...
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...
Almost all of us can remember, (Millennials excluded), when the online marketplace was born. It happened almost overnight. No longer did you have to travel to the ‘big town’ to obtain those desired, but elusive goods that you couldn’t just buy at a local...
If you think following the coded instructions to wash your clothes is complicated (all those symbols), welcome to the wonderful world of Intellectual Property rights symbols. IP rights symbols are helpful, but often overlooked tools in an IP rights...
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...
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. Criminal actions...
It is that time of year again, when things go bump in the night, indeed as the night draws in and it grows darker. Things are getting a little spookier here at Albright IP headquarters. Nothing is quite as spooky as nipping down into the depths of County House, on a...
The Golden Age of Piracy is a common expression used to describe one or more outbursts of maritime piracy throughout the Caribbean in the seventeenth century and the first part of the eighteenth century. The general consensus is this explosion of piracy was caused by...