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Bad Spaniels and Jack Daniels – the battle continues
Oct 13, 2020
Jack Daniels (or, really, its owner Brown-Forman), sent various cease and desist letters to dog toy maker, Bad Spaniels, over allegations that the name Bad Spaniels infringed the t...
Freeplay Music or Free to Play Music? That is the question.
Oct 12, 2020
Freeplay Music Company is a music productions company that provides a library of music tracks for its customers. Earlier in April this year, Freeplay Music issued a claim against ...
Writer casts some light on NBCUniversal’s Darkest Hour
Oct 9, 2020
Darkest Hour is a 2017 war drama starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill in his fight against Adolf Hitler in WWII. On Friday 18 September, TV & film writer Ben Kaplan filed...
Legal500 2021 - Top Tier
Oct 8, 2020
Every year the Legal500 interviews solicitors, barristers, and clients to gather information and feedback on lawyers around the world. This year's Legal500 rankings have now been a...
Sony and its battle for the “PS5” trade mark
Oct 8, 2020
While many gamers pre-order the much anticipated PlayStation 5 prior to its release on November 12 2020 in the US, Canada, Japan, Mexico and many other jurisdictions, the many game...
Hermès Unveils Sophisticated Counterfeit Ring
Oct 7, 2020
Hermès, the French luxury goods manufacturer, together with French authorities has recently uncovered a sophisticated counterfeiting scheme which has seen seven former Hermès emplo...
Princess Peach’s fight against porn
Oct 6, 2020
Nintendo has a formidable reputation for going after infringers of various types. It does not have a reputation for pursuing pornography studios or developers, but that is exactly...
Inline Content Embedding Requires Copyright Holder Permission
Sep 18, 2020
EU Advocate General Szpunar has recently advised the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) that embedding a copyright work into a secondary website from another website re...
Premier League TV deal or no deal
Sep 4, 2020
As the new Premier League season draws ever closer, competing parties are wrangling over how fans will get to watch matches. With hundreds of thousands of fans that would usuall...
Formula 1 copying row rumbles on
Aug 10, 2020
Formula 1 has had its fair share of copying rows in the past. Now, however, there is a new lilt to the copying: the copied and the copier are on the same side of the arguments! ...
Kanye West’s YZY trade mark registration faces challenge from USPTO
Jul 22, 2020
Kanye West’s first fashion label, Yeezy, has been the subject of a number of intellectual property disputes since its inception, despite it being massively successful and lucrative...
Police crackdown on pirate IPTV content
Jul 21, 2020
The supply of pirate Internet Protocol Television (“IPTV”) is a global issue, with authorities all across Europe cracking down on infringers. A large portion of these pirate sites ...
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