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The economic value of a well-known brand having a registered trade mark is illustrated by two recent court cases involving British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), US IT giant Microsoft and free...
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A recent intellectual property case has again illustrated the principle that the courts are unlikely to accept that geographical terms ‘belong’ to a particular business. It involved the launch...
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When a threat is made to bring a patent infringement action against another company, the result of the mere threat may be to cause damage to the threatened company. It...
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When a Canadian company decided to make a new attempt to enter the British market in 2008 with its range of washroom products, it registered its trade marks (carrying the...
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In a case which proves that even corporate minnows can successfully fight off trade mark infringement actions brought by much larger operators, a small party gaming company has inflicted a...
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When an attempt is made to challenge the validity of a trade mark, the first issue to resolve is whether or not the trade mark is ‘distinctive’ – in other...
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