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Written by Ellis Sweetenham on 20 April 2018
It has not been the best couple of weeks for WWE as after the release of their video games, a number of copyright claims have surfaced.
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Written by Ellis Sweetenham on 20 April 2018
As previously reported on the Reading Room, Crocs failed to convince the EUIPO that their shoe design was valid.
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Written by Ellis Sweetenham on 19 April 2018
Two London retailers go head to head in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court in a passing off claim involving the word 'prick'.
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Written by Mekael Rahman on 17 April 2018
The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has successfully renewed their collective trade mark of the valuable spirit until 2028 and consequently, Scotch whisky will continue to be legally protected from locally produced Chinese copies.
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Written by Samuel O'Toole on 13 April 2018
Whilst Sir Cliff was not charged with any offences, he is now suing the BBC on the basis that the raid caused “profound and long-lasting damage”.
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Written by Ellis Sweetenham on 13 April 2018
In a landmark case, a businessman has won a claim against Google for search results about a criminal conviction and their removal.
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Written by Ellis Sweetenham on 12 April 2018
The UK Government department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has made an application with the UK Intellectual Property Office to protect an image of the Queen as a trade mark.
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Written by Ellis Sweetenham on 12 April 2018
After much back and forth, Apple have hit by a massive damages order in respect of the infringement of 4 patents in the US.
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Written by Samuel O'Toole on 06 April 2018
Independent Print Ltd, the unsuccessful defendant in the case of Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd [2017] EWCA Civ 1327 has been granted permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s decision and subsequent application of Section 1(1) of the Defamation Act 2013
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Written by Samuel O'Toole on 06 April 2018
In 2016 Solid Oak Sketches brought its case, it claimed that Take-Two had reproduced its tattoo designs, without consent, in Take-Two’s NBA 2K16 video game.
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Written by Ellis Sweetenham on 06 April 2018
The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court considers trade mark infringement, passing off and a potential defence in a squabble of the name used by two student let businesses.
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Written by Ellis Sweetenham on 05 April 2018
Alibaba, a multinational e-commerce platform which was established in 1999 has taken aim at a cryptocurrency set up in Dubai under a potentially infringing name.
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Written by Samuel O'Toole on 03 April 2018
Will it be possible to delete user data that is stored on the blockchain?
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Written by Sena Tokel on 29 March 2018
Last July the Court of Appeal issued its decision in Cartier and Others v BSkyB and Others in which it upheld the 2014 ruling that brand owners can obtain website blocking injunctions against Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
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Written by Ellis Sweetenham on 29 March 2018
Being the self confessed queen of selfies, it was only a matter of time before Kim Kardashian West released a product to aid such activity.
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Written by Ellis Sweetenham on 29 March 2018
Swift seems to spend a lot of time with her intellectual property lawyers as she has yet again been accused of copyright infringement.
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Written by Mark Reed on 28 March 2018
An ongoing dispute between shoe branding’s Trade Mark application and Adidas has been given a decision by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).
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Written by Ellis Sweetenham on 23 March 2018
While the UK has been accustomed to this system for some time under the EU front, only this week has the UK taken the final steps to joining the Design system.
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Written by Ellis Sweetenham on 23 March 2018
Being possibly one of the most documented and talked about copyright claims, it seems the Blurred Lines saga doesn’t have an end in sight as of yet.
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Written by Samuel O'Toole on 22 March 2018
Whois domain name search service may need to be shut down in order to comply with the GDPR
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