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When a cloth pattern was copied and used by another business for its own fabrics, the woollen mill which owns the pattern took action to stop it. The pattern...
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A patent can only be granted when there is novelty in the thing for which the patent is sought. This is why it is critical that one’s novel designs do...
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The Internet is throwing up a number of examples of cases in which information is ‘recycled’ in breach of copyright and a legal action results. In one such case, the...
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a statement re-emphasising that awareness of Internet ‘cookies’ has increased to such an extent that it is now ‘appropriate…to rely on a responsible...
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Following the publication of the Hargreaves review on copyright law, the Government has published proposals to modernise copyright law in order to bring it up to date in the light...
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When a business profits because it gives the appearance of being (or its products appear to be those of) another business, it is effectively taking the goodwill of the other...
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