EU Customs Recordals

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

#G121: …that they have had for 40 years of the EPC and which is customary – an argument that seemed to land with the EBoA.

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

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.

How does a creative #trademarkstrategy help a #brand to build a stronger relationship with the consumer?

Second medical use claims can be novel over clinical trials in European patents. Typically, such a claim would be fairly narrow, e.g. perhaps mapping onto specific indications...

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?

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 government announced investment plans for #greeninnovation. Clearwell Technology will receive funding to develop #newtechnology...

As widely reported, CIPA was informed on 27 February in a personal telephone call to President Richard Mair by IPO CEO Tim Moss that the government will no longer seek to participate in the Unitary Patent (‘UP') or ...

This video explains how the European Patent Office assesses unity of invention and the opportunities it provides to pay further search fees.

The equivalent to the enablement requirement in the US at the EPO is Sufficiency. There is an increasing trend for the sufficiency of AI related patent applications...

The UPC has announced that the German government has deposited its ratification of the UPC Agreement today (17th Feb 2023).

With news that the Austrian parliament has ratified the Protocol on the provisional application of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on 2 December 2020...

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis of HGF analyze the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision in the Faure Le Page case, examining whether using the year 1717 in a trade mark wrongly suggests heritage and prestige that could constitute grounds for invalidity. The discussion explores the legal considerations around deceptive trade marks and the implications for French trade mark registrations incorporating historical dates.

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the importance of personal names in the world of fashion and a recent decision of the CJEU...