London’s prized position as one of the ‘big four’ fashion capitals could be threatened by changes to IP protection following Brexit.
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Alibaba, one of China’s largest technology companies, recently demonstrated VR Pay, a payment service designed to allow virtual reality shoppers to pay for things simply by nodding their head.
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The Court of Appeal (CA) yesterday dismissed the appeal by a number of well-known ISPs against a 2014 decision requiring them to block access to websites offering counterfeit goods.
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Going forward trade marks will no longer be able to provide a broad scope of protection for all goods or services.
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A recent Supreme Court decision rejected the appeal of Trunki, the well-known ride on luggage case much loved by infants, that its rival’s design was infringing a registered design.
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Two Hungarian service providers have been relieved of liability for the posting of un-moderated comments about an individual on a news website.
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Twentieth Century Fox has lost the first stage of its appeal against the finding it infringed Comic Enterprise Limited’s trade mark for a logo.
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A series of US design patents (analogous to UK registered designs (UKD)) filed by Microsoft in 2006 have been brought into focus by Microsoft’s lawsuit against Corel for infringement deriving from Corel’s Home Office software.
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The American case Tomaydo-Tomahhdo LLC v George has provided a useful reminder of the difficulties in protecting recipes.
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Brand owners have long been interested in expanding the scope of intellectual property protection beyond the conventional – for example, obtaining trade marks for smells such as freshly cut grass for tennis balls and for tyres which smell of roses.
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