The UK government has announced plans that will impact on the tax relief companies can claim in respect of research and development (R&D).

The inconsistency in the EPO Boards of Appeal in the problem of assessing partial priority has been recognised and is being referred to the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal.

Main provisions of the Intellectual Property Act 2014 (the "Act") come into force today, introducing a number of changes.

From 24 November 2014 the Community Trade Mark Office (OHIM) is changing the way it examines trade mark applications in order to increase its efficiency.

Trading under your name is an appealing idea, especially in the fashion world where designers frequently use their own names as brands (think Hugo Boss, Donatella Versace, and Tom Ford, to name but a few).

The US and Japan recently joined the Hague System that provides for international protection of industrial designs, to take the organisation's membership to 64 countries.

UK unregistered design rights are an important commercial asset and can provide effective and valuable protection in many business sectors.

It can, in terms of EPO patent applications, be hard to understand what is technical. A 2013 case explored some flawed logic sometimes used to argue things are technical.

January is widely considered to be named after a Roman god, Janus, who had two faces, which allowed him to look to the future and to the past.

IP rights have a range of benefits, e.g. in terms of marketing, negotiations and obtaining funding, but sometimes it is necessary to enforce them.

Cadbury has lost the final battle of the bars, ending a ten year legal battle when the UK Supreme Court refused Cadbury's application to appeal.

In good news for advocates of IP rights, the UK Intellectual Property Act has received Royal Assent.

Rosalyn Newsome sets out why ıı grounds weren't sufficient for success

The Court of Appeal has delivered a decision in the long running trade mark battle between Specsavers and ASDA.

The long-running battle initiated by Sky UK against the Microsoft-owned company Skype for the use of "SKY" in its mark has come to a head in the EU.

It is worth rethinking how much you rely on unregistered design rights to protect the investment you make in designing commercial products.