Intellectual Property News

California based outdoor fashion company, Patagonia Inc. (“Patagonia”) has issued proceedings against Seattle based luxury department store Nordstrom, Inc. (“Nordstrom”) in the US ...

Members of an illegal streaming group, which made upwards of £7 million by offering cheap subscriptions to watch Premier League matches, have been sentenced to a total of more than...

Thrash metal stalwarts Megadeth have settled a legal dispute with artist Brent Elliott White in relation to the artwork used on the cover of their latest album ‘The Sick, the Dying...

Pet Shop Boys frontman, Neil Tennant, today proposed that artificial intelligence (AI) should be embraced by musicians as a useful part of their song writing toolkit in the future....

A Manhattan jury have returned a verdict in favour of British singer Ed Sheeran in a federal court in New York finding him not guilty of copyright infringement. Back in April w...

Back in September 2022, we reported on the allegations of copyright infringement faced Ed Sheeran. Sheeran stands accused by the heirs of Marvin Gaye of copying the late singer’s s...

McDaniels Law Director, Niall Head-Rapson, was invited to speak on the Wake Up to Money programme on BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday, 20th April 2023, to give his expert opinion on re...

Back in February we reported on a High Court battle between supermarket giants Tesco and Lidl over Tesco’s use of a yellow circle logo on a blue background to advertise its Clubcar...

Developments in artificial intelligence (“AI”) has rapidly increased over the past few years, notably with the introduction of ChatGPT, which is a AI chatbot that allows you to hav...

Christian Louboutin has succeeded in recent proceedings against a Brazilian footwear company in the Appellate Court of Sao Paulo for infringement of intellectual property rights. ...

John Lewis has successfully defended a copyright infringement claim against its 2019 Christmas advert in the UK High Court. The advert in question features ‘Edgar’, a friendly ...

Back in May 2021, we reported on the copyright dispute between Emelike Nwosuocha, known professionally as Kidd Wes, and Childish Gambino. Kidd Wes claimed Gambino’s song “This I...