Trends in domain enforcement over the 2025 holiday shopping season
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When there is no way back – missed deadline leads to a loss of a plant variety right
AI’s potential impact on web search, traffic and trademarks
- AI
- Trade Marks
Marking the line: Mio and Others and the USM Haller case offer clarity on the criteria for determining originality
- Designs + Copyright
The Maldives to introduce comprehensive trade mark protection
- Travel
- Trade Marks
Lululemon vs. Costco dupe lawsuit: Understanding the legal battle
- Fashion
- Look-a-likes
- Disputes + Litigation
- Trade Marks
CeramTec v Coorstek (C-17/24) CJEU clarifies the relationship between bad faith and technical functionality in trade marks
- Pharma
- Trade Marks
Giving back – developing people
Br‘AI’ve New World: Experimenting with the use of generative AI for brand protection analysis tasks
- AI
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XARF-way to (enforcement) paradise
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IAM: Making trade mark renewals economical and less risky
- Trade Marks
- Designs + Copyright
Picture Imperfect: framing the legal boundaries in Getty Images v Stability AI
- AI
- Designs + Copyright
- Trade Marks
OAPI vs ARIPO – not exactly the Rumble in the Jungle
- Trade Marks
The ‘Apple Dance’ and IP’s bite-sized future
- Arts & Entertainment
- Celebrity
- Trade Marks
- Designs + Copyright
Playing with a simple revisitor script for monitoring changes to website content
- Brand Protection
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From London to the Tropics: Do UK trade marks cross oceans?
- Trade Marks
Making sense of UKIPO's design law consultation: Key areas of reform
- Fashion
- Designs + Copyright
To dotBrand, or not to dotBrand, that is the question
- Domains
Revisiting the calculation of brand protection return-on-investment
- Brand Protection
- Anti-Counterfeiting
Tanzania to introduce mandatory recordation system for imported products
- Trade Marks
- Anti-Counterfeiting
WyrdBrandz: Misspelling in brand names – is it an effective marketing tactic?
- Brand Protection
“Brat Green” and beyond: What fashion designers can learn about colour trade marks
- Fashion
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Further explorations in clustering – use of Google advertising tracking links
- Tech
- Domains
- Brand Protection
E-mail address extraction from webpages: a quick case study in result ‘clustering’
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you/talk/fast/med: another forthcoming batch of new gTLDs
- Telecoms
- Pharma
- Domains
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(Literally) Everything’s £1 – The Poundland domain landscape
- Food & Drink
- Domains
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Lawn and Order: Miracle-Gro and Spruce tangle in trademark turf war
- Trade Marks
A Tale of Two Judges: the “fair use” defense and GenAI model training
- AI
- Designs + Copyright
Exploring a domain scoring system with ‘tricky’ brands
- Domains
- Brand Extension
(Sky)kicked to the curb due to finding of bad faith
- Trade Marks
Yupoo: Image-sharing as a gateway to counterfeit sales
- Brand Protection
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Heel to heel: Iconix and Dream Pairs face off in Supreme Court showdown
- Trade Marks
'Notorious IP addresses' and initial steps towards the formulation of an overall threat score for websites
- Domains
Speeding up the trade mark process in Singapore
- Trade Marks
The new new-gTLDs – A wider domain of language support
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From Series to Simplicity: the UKIPO’s new trade mark approach
- Trade Marks
How to avoid a sad beige ending: Lessons drawn from the 'Sad Beige Influencer' case
- Fashion
- Designs + Copyright
- Disputes + Litigation
- Trade Marks
Stable Diffusion or Unstable Grounds? Getty Images v Stability AI puts AI and IP in the spotlight
- Trade Marks
- Designs + Copyright
Quevedo Port: a nuanced decision illuminating the boundaries of PDO protection
- Trade Marks
An updated view of bad TLDs
- Brand Protection
- Domains
Late-night takeaways from the trade marks register
- Trade Marks
Using clustering and investigation techniques to connect and identify scam law-firm websites
A Bitter Brew: Schweppes and MAY OOO clash over 'MAY TEA' trade mark
- Trade Marks
- Disputes + Litigation
How to avoid a sad beige ending: Lessons drawn from the sad beige influencer case
- Trade Marks
- Designs + Copyright
It’s not as easy as your ABC – trade mark protection in the ABC Islands
- Trade Marks
Reminder for brand owners with interests in Quebec
- Trade Marks
UDRP Backfires: Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Decision in Solar Hero GmbH v. SINCRONIELEVADA UNIPESSOAL Case
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Clause Encounters: how the Data (Use and Access) Bill rewrites the script for AI and creativity
- Designs + Copyright
- Trade Marks
Still haven’t found what I’m looking for? – The EUIPO report on search-engine practices
- Brand Protection
Glucose, Gadgets, and a Good Fight: Claims and Counterclaims of 3D Trade Mark Infringement and Invalidity in Abbott v Sinocare’s CGM battle
- Trade Marks
World IP Day 2025: might it be possible to construct a quantitative framework for specifying and comparing sound marks?
- Trade Marks
“com- away with me”: Use of ‘com-’ domains in the construction of deceptive ‘URL-like’ hostnames
- Brand Protection
free/hot/spot?: an exploration of three new gTLD launches
Rum row rumbles in Barbados and Jamaica
- Trade Marks
Thatchers v Aldi: A Deep Dive
Poking the Bear: Brand impersonation scams targeting Intellectual Property Offices
Runway to ripoffs: How copyright protects your creations
- Fashion
- Designs + Copyright
Alas Smiths: an exploration of WHSmith's domains following their store closures
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- Brand Protection
The Man with The Golden Gun: Explorations of James Bond IP
- Celebrity
- Brand Protection
- Domains
‘Racist’ trade mark refused in Switzerland
- Travel
- Trade Marks
Changes to registered design renewals fees in the European Union
- IP Basics
- Designs + Copyright
Shorts International falls short in its trade mark infringement and passing off claim against Google
- Arts & Entertainment
- Tech
- Trade Marks
Taking action: EU Commission proceedings against online platforms under the Digital Services Act
- Tech
- Brand Protection
- Domains
On a case-by-case basis: international trade mark case law
- Travel
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Clutch, dress, contract: A beginner’s guide to contracts
- IP Basics
- Fashion
- Advertising + Marketing
January scams surrounding the fall and rise of TikTok and Trump
- Celebrity
- Domains
- Brand Protection
Notorious: a B.I.G. set of markets for counterfeiting and piracy to keep an eye on
- Domains
- Brand Protection
“You spelled it wrong”: exploring typo domains
- Domains
- Brand Protection
A refreshing change – Thatcher’s succeed in appeal against Aldi lookalike lemon cider
- Food & Drink
- Look-a-likes
- Trade Marks
New Year, new international IP developments
- IP Basics
- Trade Marks
It’s a dark whois world
- Brand Protection
Christmas and New Year brand protection trends – New-year domain names
- Brand Protection
Christmas and New Year brand protection trends – Delivery service scams
- Domains
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Thatcher's Cloudy Claim: Court of Appeal weighs in on the Cloudy Cider showdown
- Food & Drink
- Trade Marks
- Disputes + Litigation
The universe of numeric domain names
- Domains
- Brand Protection