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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’…

When a brand owner seeking a CTM argues that a prima facie descriptive mark has become distinctive by prior use, will use across a few EU states be enough? Hamish…

Electronics giant TDK had not registered its brand for clothing, so could it stop ‘af 21 November 2001′ from registering TDK as a CTM for clothing? And why was sponsorship…

Roman Abramovich was not impressed with an attempt by upstart ‘Chelski Ltd’ to register ‘Chelski’ as a trade mark. Out came the top legal signings in a court challenge, but…

At the request of Direct Line, the Trade Mark Registry has blocked a bid by rival eSure for a mouse on wheels trade mark. DL said this was confusingly similar…

The forgettably named ‘Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market’ registers Community Trade Marks. So how has it managed to amass a cash surplus estimated to reach €375 million by…