Intellectual Property News

One of the most significant differences in copyright law between the UK and US is that while copyright protection arises automatically in UK, in the US an application has to be mad...

It is a fair assumption that anybody reading this will have heard of YouTube. Twitch.tv, however, is much less well-known. It began as a niche e-sports streaming platform reserved ...

Companies often fight tooth and nail to have their intellectual property removed from websites offering it up for free. Film producers spend millions of pounds per year preventing ...

The question has been pondered by the District Court of The Hague during a battle between McGregor IP (a Dutch fashion brand) and Reebok over the use of the word "McGregor" on clot...

Counterfeiting of highly desirable and or luxury goods has been a growing problem for decades. As the world learns more about leading brands, counterfeiters get smarter, more adapt...

German photographer Dirk Renckhoff has recently succeeded in his claim against a German high school at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for copyright infringement. A student at ...

That is the question that Mr Justice David Gendall of the High Court of New Zealand will now have to consider. The case concerns the well-known (in the UK) British breakfast cerea...

As we reach the peak of summer we can look forward with excitement to the festive period with a little yuletide copyright litigation. Late last month photographer Lance Knowles fi...

We reported  recently that Mr Justice Arnold had extended the Premier League blocking injunction requiring Internet Service Providers ("ISPs") to disable access to illegal streams ...

US computer consulting company SwiftLife has filed a trademark infringement claim against singer Taylor Swift over a mobile app called "The Swift Life". Patrick Bénot, who owns Sw...

The European Court of Justice has decided (finally) that Nestlé does not own the shape of its four-fingered Kit Kat. Nestlé has spent the best part of 15 years in the battle to tr...

In the internet age there has always been a demand for access to games and videos that pre-dated it. That demand is never higher than for retro games that populated our lives in th...