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Confectionery maker Ferrero has recently come a cropper in a two- pronged challenge to FIFA’s claimed monopoly rights over soccer World Cup branding. So what’s wrong with ‘World Cup Germany’…

The Business recently announced that iPod maker Apple is to make it clear to iPod accessory makers that they can only use iPod branding if they pay royalties. But what’s…

On the eve of the launch of Barclays’ long awaited ‘Inventive spirit’ campaign, an East Midlands accountancy practice applied to register the very same strap line that was the centrepiece…

Previously on marketinglaw we reported a case in which the absence of consumer advertising played a crucial part in the revocation of a trade mark registration for lack of use.…

Five years’ non-use can mean curtains for any UK trade mark registration, but was sale to a UK distributor of £800 worth of ‘La Mer’ products enough to save the…

For ten years Nestlé has been trying to persuade any trademark judge who would listen that it should be entitled to register ‘Have a break’ as a trademark. Now it’s…

The contract commissioning a freelance designer to produce a new logo for the famous footwear brand was silent on copyright ownership. So did this allow the designer to sell some…