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The Ethics behind COVID-19 Vaccine Patents

It is said that one of the first patent system was created to encourage glass blowers to divulge the secrets of their trade. Previously, glass …

The Florence Foster Jenkins film screenplay battle

A decision in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, IPEC, has applied the joint authorship principles set out by the Court of Appeal in a dispute …

Copyright – Duchess Of Sussex VS Mail on Sunday

It has been highly publicised that the Duchess of Sussex has taken legal action against the Mail on Sunday and their parent company Associated Newspapers …

Bentley Trademark Infringement

The car manufacturer Bentley have been instructed by the High Court to destroy a range of clothing they produced which was found to infringe a …

BREXIT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

THE MAIN POINTS TO NOTE NOW THAT THE UK HAS LEFT THE EU Headlines Patents are unaffected by Brexit. Some other intellectual property rights will …

Changes to Trade Marks after 31st December 2020

The UK left the EU on the 31st January 2020 and entered a transition period wherein, until 1st January 2021, Intellectual properties rights in the …

How Brexit will affect EU designs after 31st December 2020

Although the UK has officially left the EU, there is a transition period until the 1st January 2021 after which changes to EU design law …

Insolvency Practitioners

IPs and IPRs A business is in financial difficulty, possibly already in some kind of insolvency procedure. One of the first, often urgent, tasks for …

Halloumi a Trademark

The Foundation for the Protection of Traditional Cheese of Cyprus has won a case in the High court to protect “Halloumi” as a trademark and …

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