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Rival products sometimes bear similar names but, when considering whether or not that is likely to cause confusion, judges place themselves in the shoes of average consumers. The High Court...
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Many successful businesses have experience of others seeking to ride on the coat-tails of their expensively established goodwill. However, as was shown by one High Court case, expert legal advice...
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Businesses that have websites will be aware of the regulations that govern the use of ‘cookies’. Recently, an opinion of the Advocate General of the European Union on questions referred...
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Is the purchaser of a product sold under a trade mark entitled to take it apart and sell its component parts under the trade mark? The High Court considered that...
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One of the key requirements for a patent for a technical process innovation to be successfully defended is that there must be something genuinely innovative about the subject matter of...
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Large companies frequently engage outside contractors to assist with storage of the vast quantities of data they produce. However, as a High Court case showed, a breakdown of such commercial...
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