Oct 18, 2023

Scents and sensibility: a fragrant trade marks face-off in Prada vs Rada

Oct 16, 2023

The IoTeX case: domain naming collisions and other emerging risks in the blockchain ecosystem

Oct 13, 2023

Sanosil is the latest to be defeated by WIPO's clean sweep against retroactive bad faith

Oct 11, 2023

Strategies for constructing a domain-name registration and management policy

Oct 10, 2023

OI, THAT’S MINE – AI ownership and the terrible twos

Oct 6, 2023

“Web dot-coms but once a year”– Holiday shopping activity, Part 1: Black Friday domains

Oct 4, 2023

RAGING BULLS– another score draw in bull logo disputes

Sep 26, 2023

AI-lluminating The Legal Landscape: byte-sized considerations for AI

Sep 25, 2023

.music to brand owners' ears?

Sep 21, 2023

Wilko: a target for scams following administration

Sep 18, 2023

and exhale... Glaxo successfully annuls a Board of Appeal decision in relation to its 3D/ colour trade mark for an inhaler

Sep 14, 2023

®YDER CUP warm up – Ryder Cup brand owners hit opponents into the rough in trade mark dispute over founder’s name

Sep 11, 2023

The randomest domain names: entropy as an indicator of TLD threat level

Sep 7, 2023

Digital Markets Act: EU confirms Big Tech ‘gatekeepers’

Sep 5, 2023

What’s in a name? Why the lookalike argument needs to change

Sep 5, 2023

The Grocer article- Stobbs sets out to ‘revise thinking’ on copycats

Sep 5, 2023

Attack of the Clones: How discounters are getting away with copycatting

Sep 5, 2023

An ‘own goal’ or the right decision? Experts react to Lidl’s victory over Tesco

Sep 5, 2023

A shapely debate – Iconix v Dream Pairs

Aug 31, 2023

Cloudflare: abuse policies, piracy & IP blocking

Aug 25, 2023

For All The Marbles- a lack of evidence leads to Kai Collective's unsuccessful design registration invalidation action

Aug 22, 2023

Un-.zip-ping and un-.box-ing the risks associated with new TLDs

Aug 17, 2023

New Lionesses ® and old World Cup Willie offer us some lessons about trade mark protection

Aug 16, 2023

When is a Golf trolley not a golf trolley? When it’s a (VW) Golf trolley, says the UKIPO

Aug 14, 2023

The emperor's new design: a recent UK unregistered design right infringement case by KF Global Brands sets out the requirements for a successful claim

Aug 9, 2023

Lidl’s loss of faith: Lidl v Tesco puts another nail in the coffin of evergreening

Aug 4, 2023

CITMA article- Time for discussion: a missed deadline may not have been the decider in Apple's unsuccessful opposition to a trade mark application by Apella Games

Aug 1, 2023

X (trade)marks the spot: not a textbook example of a successful rebranding exercise

Jul 26, 2023

Trends in Web3 – Part 1: A look at blockchain domains

Jul 20, 2023

A practical guide to intellectual property in the food industry

Jul 11, 2023

Wolters Kluwer Trade Mark Blog- Lidl v Tesco: We need to talk about Copyright

Jul 4, 2023

Board of Appeal sides with HAVANNA over the SOHO Group in a trade mark dispute after havin' another look at the evidence of use

Jun 28, 2023

Wolters Kluwer Trade Mark blog- a Lidl extension to Passing Off

Jun 7, 2023

A practical guide to intellectual property in agriculture and the farming industry

Jun 2, 2023

General Court does not toy with the definition of 'toys' in SIMBA/BIMBA trade mark dispute

May 23, 2023

Wolters Kluwer Trade Mark Blog- Good for the Goose: Own goal for Lidl in future lookalike cases

May 16, 2023

Influencing the influencers: CMA and CAP issue new guidance on the use of influencers

Apr 6, 2023

Should brand-owners consider adding metaverse-related marks to their trade mark portfolio?

Mar 30, 2023

Cheers to distinctive slogans! A recent UKIPO appeal decision offers new guidance on what slogans are distinctive enough to trade mark

Mar 22, 2023

DUUUVAL cry of appeal goes unheeded by the General Court

Mar 17, 2023

Checkmate: General Court rejects Louis Vuitton’s claim of acquired distinctiveness in its chequerboard pattern

Mar 14, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank – The collapse of a premier technology bank with a premium brand

Mar 9, 2023

(Un)true brew? Brewdog falls foul of the ASA's advertising rules

Feb 28, 2023

CITMA article- Copyright claim gets lost in translation

Feb 22, 2023

Iceland the nation freezes out Iceland the supermarket in the competition for their name

Feb 17, 2023

China proposes amendments to trade mark law

Feb 14, 2023

Direct liability of online hybrid marketplaces: the shoe is now on the other foot

Feb 9, 2023

Mauritius joins international IP systems

Feb 7, 2023

Have you got a UK address for service? An important notice to international owners of UK trade mark and design rights

Jan 31, 2023

Kluwer Trade Mark Blog- CJEU rules in quartet of cases that Falsified Medicines Directive no excuse for repackaging of products

Jan 25, 2023

Kluwer Trade Mark Blog- L’Oréal is triumphant in the battle of the ‘K’ trade marks

Jan 19, 2023

How Brands Can Protect Customers Against Malvertising

Jan 17, 2023

Four questions to ask yourself before registering a trade mark