EU Customs Recordals

The IP attorney membership organisation FICPI has produced a guide on changes to deadlines and arrangements for national...

Brexitproof your Trademarks and Designs – what you need to know

Recording your Intellectual Property rights with customs helps prevent potentially dangerous counterfeit food and drink products from entering the market.

The findings from a recent UK Patents Court judgment have clarified the extent of litigation sanctions imposed when there is a failure to record a patent transaction at the Patent Office.

Misleading communications, which look as though they come from official trade mark organisations, continue to circulate.

In a culmination of a ten year negotiation, the EU seems poised to impose a standard charging port on phone manufacturers.

In this second podcast, we are going to talk about the colour in fashion and the difficulties of protecting it.

Earlier this year, independent designer Sonia Edwards brought a claim against fast-fashion giant Boohoo before the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), alleging infringement of her unregistered design...

Rights owners have been particularly concerned about cybersquatting since the expansion of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) began in 2012.

Welcome to episode 3 of our second series of HGF's Fashionably IP podcast.

This podcast is the second in a series of three podcasts on key aspects of trade mark protection in the UK and EU.

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss position trademarks in fashion. What are position trade marks and how easy or hard are they to register in the world of fashion. What happens when fashion trademarks come into conflict?

On November 3, 2022, the US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) announced that it is extending the deadline for public input on its proposed initiatives aimed at ensuring the robustness...

The sponsorship and collaboration deal also features provisions regarding IP assets which Santander will be able to utilise going forward.

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview Theo Barclay of 4 New Square, who was the successful lead counsel for Dryrobe Limited, in the recent decision of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC)...

Lee Curtis and Rebecca Field discuss the recent Thom Browne/Adidas decision of the English High Court concerning the battle of the three and four stripes. The decision was long and wide-ranging concerning invalidity.

The Thom Browne/Adidas Decision: another battle of the stripes

The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has recently updated its guidance relating to Address for Service (AFS) in the UK.

Richard Kemp takes a look at the implications for intellectual property of AI foundation models.