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...
I have always had a bit of a problem with the question “what’s the probability of success?”. Is this patent going to be granted? Are we going to win this proposed litigation? Clients quite reasonably want to know, and most people accept there is some uncertainty. But...
‘Tis the season to be jolly, but Marks and Spencer (M&S) is none too happy about Aldi’s two new gin product designs. Whilst Aldi’s Twitter team has been making light of it with some tongue-in-cheek tweets, M&S believes that Aldi has infringed some of its UK registered...
Although this article is entitled ‘How to estimate ‘user principle’ damages in an IP infringement dispute’, I did consider calling this ‘When someone borrows your horse without asking’. Please read on, and hopefully you will see...
Many business owners are unaware of the importance of registering their Trade Marks, even though this may become one of their most valuable assets. This can be because many wrongly assume that once they have registered their name at Companies House, or have secured a...
Competitor patents – if your competitor has a pending European patent application that could ultimately prove a problem for you, consider filing ‘observations’ on the patentability of their invention.
Although the Examiner is not obliged to take your submission into account, well thought out observations often prove very influential in such cases.
