All Articles in Intellectual property

HM Government is looking at reform of the UK’s copyright regime, last significantly updated back in 1988. One question is whether the defence of “fair dealing” is too narrowly drawn…

A High Court ruling in favour of the manufacturers of the always cheerful Henry vacuum cleaner held that a rival’s proposed replica would have deceived consumers and shows that goodwill…

Google recently got a key US patent for location-based advertising and updated a number of other patents covering online advertising tools. Will these have a major impact on web and…

The UK Intellectual Property Office is consulting on key changes to our copyright laws. Following an EU directive, the way was clear to introduce a “parody” defence for the first…

Many are awaiting the outcome of a US case between the Premier League and YouTube for confirmation as to whether UK companies need to register their copyright with the US…

The famous Barack Obama “HOPE” poster that became a national symbol during the Obama election campaign has led to copyright infringement claims and “fair use” cries from the poster’s creator.…

The “life plus 70 years after the end of the year of death” rule for most copyright works means that each 1st January, many creative works fall into the public…

“Extraction” from a database without permission infringes database right. But what is “extraction” and can it occur even if no data from the database is actually being physically copied? Zoë…

Ryanair claims that a flight aggregation site’s practice of “screen-scraping” infringes their trade marks and database rights and that the use of RYANAIR amounts to “passing off”. Gemma Neylon, trainee…