The history of fashion intellectual property law in around fifteen minutes

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the impact of exhaustion of rights on intellectual property law in the world of fashion. The exhaustion of IP rights is particularly...

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the impact of Generative AI on online search and associated legal issues.

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview their HGF colleagues Lauren Somers and Emma Pallister on the quiet luxury trend in fashion and what impact does it have on IP rights.

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview their HGF colleague Rachel Platts about the UKIPO's consultation on proposed changes to UK design law and their impact on fashion design.

Our Head of Law Rachel Fetches is speaking on the latest episode of the Charted Institute Of Patent Attorneys Two IPs In a Pod podcast and in this episode they are discussing...

On 6 October the UPC preparatory team released its roadmap regarding the opening of the UPC.

The German Bundestag has approved the ratification bill on the Unified Patent Court Agreement.

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss when EU Registered and Unregistered Designs and UK Supplemental Unregistered Design Rights are considered to be new and to have individual character.

Oral proceedings by videoconference can be enforced by the EPO during the pandemic

The pilot project for oral proceedings held by videoconference (VICO) in opposition cases has been further extended to 31 December 2022.

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the intellectual property rights that apply to jewellery, some recent cases on the protection of jewellery under trademark law, and also why all things that glitter.

With the aim of enabling innovative plant breeding and to maintain Europe's ability to be competitive in the International playing field...

2023 published patents show interesting and remarkable innovations from jet engine manufacturers, with considerable emphasis...

Continuing my series of short blog posts on developments in jet engine technology revealed by 2023 patent application publications, I turn to Rolls-Royce (R-R).

HGF are pleased to be a partner of P2I2025, the annual symposium organised by the Intellectual Property Commission of the French Aeronautics and Astronautics Association (3AF).

Safeguard measure: Excess page fees on ST.25 sequence listings included as part of a divisional application to be waived by the EPO.

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview Professor Johanna Gibson of Queen Mary University of London. We touch on the new Fashion Law LLM, the first fashion law LLM in the United Kingdom and discuss fashion...

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview barrister Daniel Selmi of Three New Square in this edition of the Fashionably IP podcast on the concept of the informed user in UK and EU registered design law.

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis of HGF interview Professor Alexandra Roberts of Northeastern University in Boston on US trade dress law. What is trade dress?