Information Technology

• Slogan Fails Distinctiveness Test

  • Posted4 September 2014

  Trade marks are a fairly difficult area in law and challenges to the registration (or, if registration is granted, the validity) of trade marks are common. Words and/or logos...

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• Whose Data is it Anyway?

  • Posted13 August 2014

  When a publisher and the firm managing its subscription database fell out over the database manager’s quality of service, the publisher gave the database manager a month’s notice to terminate...

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• Patent Dispute that Reaches High Court has far Reaching Implications

  • Posted4 August 2014

  When intellectual property rights are not the subject of proper agreements, the likelihood of a dispute arising is increased. When the responsibilities and rights of employees are not precisely stipulated,...

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• Design Law to Make Copying a Crime

  • Posted21 July 2014

  One of the less well reported changes contained in the Intellectual Property Act 2014 is that the commercial exploitation of a registered design without the design owner’s permission will become...

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• Court Fight Increases Cost of Copyright Violation

  • Posted7 July 2014

  A photographer who had taken a picture of pop stars Ke$Ha and LMFAO has received a settlement of £20,000 after the Patents Court ruled that his copyright had been infringed. ...

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• Web Content – Can Do and Can’t Do

  • Posted24 June 2014

  It is commonly, but erroneously, thought that if content is on the Internet it is free to copy. However, this is not the case as copyright belongs to the creator...

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