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A company which produces plastic milk bottles – tens of millions of which are used in the UK every day – has landed a strategic blow on a trade rival...
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The Intellectual Property Office has published a guide to changes in the law relating to designs. These were introduced by the Intellectual Property Act 2014, which received the Royal Assent...
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A case that made headlines recently, when a sender of spam emails was fined £300,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office, has come back to court. The somewhat surprising result...
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In June, the ‘.uk’ top-level domain was launched. The .uk extension indicates an organisation in the UK, as opposed to the ‘.co.uk’ one, which has been used for many years...
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Just because a new software product produces the same results, operates in a similar fashion or looks similar to pre-existing software does not mean that the copyright in the original...
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The Court of Appeal has concluded that a product description which contains a geographical term can constitute ‘passing off’ if the product does not in fact come from the place...
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