Cadbury’s Purple Trade Marks
Cadbury has faced yet another blow in their long-term battle in winning Trade Mark rights to their signature purple colour, used on its chocolate bars since the 1900s. Last week (12 April 2019), the UK Intellectual Property Office delivered a mixed judgement...
Camborne Trevithick Day – 27th April 2019
We are pleased to be supporting Camborne Trevithick Day on 27th April 2019. This annual celebration commemorates Camborne’s most famous son, prolific inventor Richard Trevithick. The first commercially useful steam engine was developed in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen,...
Victory for ‘Peppa Pig’ – Peppa’s win on Trade Mark Invalidity Claim
The owners of a hugely popular British animated series, ‘Peppa Pig’, have successfully won their bid to invalidate a Mark, arguably evocative of their well-known ‘Peppa Pig’ character. Peppa Pig first graced our TV screens back in May 2004, and has since...
Mitigating the Effects of Prior Unpublished Patent Applications
Prior art searching is one of the most difficult things to get right in the IP sector, since any search is open-ended. How do you know whether there is a knockout document which discloses something identical to your invention that has just not been found, or whether it just does not exist?