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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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The use of certain names for companies etc. has been restricted for a very long time – the restrictions on ‘sensitive’ names being intended to reduce the likelihood that a...
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In Harding v Cancer Research UK Limited, a former charity worker has failed in his long-running unfair dismissal claim after the Court of Appeal ruled that his case was based...
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Rushing into litigation with insufficient preparation and without taking advice can have unfortunate consequences. This simple fact was demonstrated when the owners of a restaurant, who claimed that their business...
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Anyone who files a VAT return will know that for some time HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have insisted that these are filed online. This presents particular challenges for...
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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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