All Articles in Intellectual property

Concerns over on-line links and copyright have been revived by a Belgian Court order against Google over its ‘Google News’ service threatening daily fines of up to €1.5m for failure…

Intel Corporation recently attacked the Omnicom-owned brand ‘Intelmark’ This was registered in the name of the marketing services group’s customer contact strategy agency CPM. Detrimental to the chip corporation’s ‘Intel’…

Recent Practice Amendment Notices published by the UK Trade Marks Registry shed light on how to register a colour as a trade mark and other points to watch when contemplating…

If you copy somebody else’s description of a commercial scheme, do you have to account to them for all profits you make by exploiting it? A recent Court of Appeal…

It’s been 10 years since Nestlé first applied to register the phrase ‘Have a break’ as a trade mark alongside its existing registration ‘Have a break – have a Kit…

Model June Toney licensed use of her likeness in packaging for ‘Ultra Sheen Supreme’ hair products. Was her later action against the advertisers for unauthorised use a copyright infringement or…

When DC Thomson got wind of a planned Labour Party poster featuring the Tory leader as the comic world’s biggest cow pie fan, the Dundee publishers were not amused.  …

Now the registration fees are fixed it’s now possible to contemplate filing an application to register a Community Design. Will this be a chance for this under-used registrable intellectual property…