Recently, PlanetArt, the company behind the popular FreePrints app, succeeded in a Trade Mark infringement claim against one of its competitors, Photobox. The infringement claim related to Photobox’s rival app, which, like FreePrints, provides prints of photographs...
Albright IP has again demonstrated its top-flight capabilities after earning a place in the recent Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA) rankings. The annual league tables produced by CITMA show how many filings IP companies have made – and in the...
Following the CJEU greatly anticipated judgement to questions raised to it, the UK High Court has now issued Lord Justice Arnold’s concluding decision, in the Sky v SkyKick case. As reported previously, Justice Arnold had requested the CJEU provide...
Normally, having to face moving goalposts would be a bad thing, but it is proving to be beneficial when it comes to IP deadlines falling during the Covid-19 pandemic. For now, deadlines before the UK Intellectual Property Office remain extended under the...
Following on from Part 1, we explore further questions relating to applying for and owning a patent, particularly cases where there are multiple owners. As a patent is a form of property, how does it work to have two or more joint owners? In the...
You can avoid large extra official fees when filing your US patent application by changing any multiple dependency claims to single dependency, so that your later claims only depend back to one previous claim.
By also limiting your claims to no more than three independent claims and to no more than twenty claims altogether, extra official fees will also be avoided.