Media attention following last week's annual UKIP conference
focused not only on the party's newly elected leader, but also
its new logo. News reports and tweets, including one from
football pundit Gary Lineker, remarked on the similarities between
the new UKIP logo and the logo adopted by the Premier League last
year. The new UKIP logo features a purple lion's head
next to the words "UKIP FOR THE NATION", while the
Premier League's logo also depicts a purple lion's head
which is used both on its own and in combination with the words
"Premier League".
Initial reports stated that the Premier League's legal team
were looking into whether UKIP had infringed its intellectual
property; however, a recent World Intellectual Property Review
article has commented that the Premier League will not be taking
any action. UKIP's Chairman reportedly told the BBC that
the party had done its due diligence before revealing the logo.
It's not clear whether this included a full
