Danjaq – the owner of the rights in the James Bond film, Dr No - has failed to prevent Mission Productions from registering a European Community trade mark for the term ‘DR NO’ for bags, clothing, food and drink.

Canon Inc has revealed that, during the third quarter of 2022, the company has successfully removed a total of 1171 infringing listings from Amazon platforms in Germany...

An EPO opposition is an administrative, first‑instance process in which the Opposition Division takes a fresh look at a granted patent...

Discover five key takeaways from one of the first interim conference hearings before the UPC in this article by Oliver Laing and Georgia Carr.

Yesterday, French luxury fashion house Hermès won a landmark trial in the US which determined that the "MetaBirkin" NFTs infringe Hermès' trade marks relating to its iconic Birkin bag.

On 12 January 2016, the UK government published a consultation in response to the IPO proposal.

An international panel of McDermott's US and European lawyers compare and contrast recent developments in trademark, copyright and design law, including developments in disparagement law...

A detailed examination of a landmark IPEC case involving luxury fashion brands LVMH, Fendi, Loewe, Christian Dior, and Celine against social media influencer Georgia Aldridge for promoting counterfeit products. The discussion explores how courts assess damages when influencers knowingly sell non-genuine branded fashion items and what this means for both brand protection and influencer liability in the digital marketplace.

Proceedings for provisional measures at the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court have recently come to a conclusion in the case of Biolitec Holding GmbH & Co. KG...

Mark v Universal Coatings & Services: Court considers effect of failing to serve medical report with particulars of claim in a personal injury case.

This month the Advertising Standards Authority (the "ASA") published the findings of its latest cosmetics advertising survey, reporting that 93% of the cosmetic advertisements examined between 12 July 2007 and 12 September 2007 were in compliance with the Code.

Last year, a legislative amendment designed to solve an anomaly whereby tenants with unprotected, or minor, tenancies receive less ‘disturbance' compensation under a CPO than either licensees or tenants with protected tenancies has, for HS2 compensation claimants, ended up creating a two-tier compensation system.

Since last summer, the Law Commission has been reviewing the workings of the security of tenure regime within Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (the "LTA 1954").

We have now had over six years of the euro to assess the effects of a unified currency. The question we are now in a position to ask is – is it working as planned and what would happen if the UK was to join in the party?

The opening words of the new social mobility report launched by the All Party Parliamentary Group on this topic area states that the report was produced to "discuss and promote the cause of social mobility; to raise issues of concern and help inform policy makers and formers".

The First Tier Tribunal here looked at a capital gains mitigation scheme involving matching futures and, by construing the legislation purposively and looking at the transactions as a whole, determined that a loss suffered as a result of the reduction in value of shares was not allowable.

Businesses can claim first year allowances (FYAs) on certain types of plant and machinery. FYAs allow the business to claim up to 100% of the expenditure incurred.

For research scientists, the Hawthorne effect is a well-known problem of human behaviour reactivity - where individuals modify an aspect of their behaviour in response to their awareness of being observed.

The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division has filed a civil suit to block the acquisition of General Electric's appliance business by Electrolux.

Sanford is a vertically integrated healthcare system operating in eight states, including North Dakota.