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...
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 look...
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...
Few things in life are free, but here’s a happy exception to the rule. Copyright exists automatically when you create a qualifying work. The Copyright Designs and Patents Act endows protection on your “literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works”, automatically and...
Need a UK patent quickly? File your patent application with a request for Combined Search and Examination, and ask for early publication and accelerated prosecution. Grant can take place in as little as 8 to 9 months at the UK IPO.