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Time was when the Trade Marks Registry rejected a trade mark registration application if it conflicted with an existing registration. Since 1 October 2007 all this has changed and the…

The owners of the Red Bull brand were not impressed by third party-owned domain names “betterthenredbull.com” and “betterthanredbull.com”. They were positively raging to discover these were links to sites advertising…

Europe’s Court of First Instance’s verdict that wine and wine glasses are different products seems unexceptional. But what if it means that Ireland’s iconic “Waterford” brand and CTM cannot be…

Back in January we reported that a trade mark application by esure Insurance Limited to register the shape and appearance of a computer mouse on wheels as a trade mark…

Lacoste has failed in its latest attempt to protect its iconic crocodile logo. On this occasion it was seeking to assert its trade mark rights in the logo against a…

Even if your brand is not a registered trade mark, you may be able to prevent others using it on grounds of “passing off.” But what happens if you haven’t…

A recent Chancery Division verdict underlines the significantly reduced copyright protection for certain types of branding. For life plus 70 read just 15 years for some industrially reproduced designs. Where…

Believe it or not, Spain is one country in which Hornby does not own the Scalextric brand. It also happens to be the world’s largest slotcar racing market. So “Scalextric…

The UK’s trade mark registering body, the newly monickered “UK Intellectual Property Office,” has published a 2006 Report. Who registered most brands last year, what were the most popular product…

Currently, if there were no ‘Osborne Clarke Ltd’, Osborne Clarke would have to prove a case in trade mark infringement or passing off to stop somebody else registering a company…

To settle proceedings brought by London DJ Richard ‘Diddy’ Dearlove, US rap artist ‘Diddy,’ formerly known as Puffy Combs, agreed to stop advertising products in the UK under the ‘Diddy’…