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CABOOM! Knievel crashes again!
Oct 4, 2021
A row erupted and landed in a Nevada Federal Court in a claim by the son of the late Evil Knievel, the world famous stuntman, that Disney’s character, Duke Caboom was based on and ...
Copycats becoming an OktoberPest
Sep 15, 2021
Oktoberfest is the famous yearly beer festival which takes place between September and October in Munich and attracts approximately six million people per year from all over the wo...
Don’t cry over spilt milk
Aug 12, 2021
Popular Swedish brand and household name Oatly has lost a trade mark battle against PureOaty, a family-run farm in Cambridgeshire. Oatly started proceedings on the basis the name P...
In this war of words… Aldi has an Army of Caterpillars
Apr 22, 2021
We’ve just learned that the collective noun for caterpillars is an army: who knew? We are all now aware of the recent dispute between supermarket giants Marks & Spencer and Aldi...
Hermes succeeds again
Jan 5, 2021
In June 2020, Hermes was successful in the Tokyo District Court with regards to its trade mark infringement and passing off claim against Kabushiki Kaisha Tia Maria (“Tia Maria”), ...
Instagram is the "top showcase platform for counterfeiters"
May 7, 2019
Ghost Data, the data analysis and AI analytics firm, last month released a report entitled "Instagram and counterfeiting in 2019: new features, old problems". You can read the enti...
Hair Bear Bunch of Kardashians
Feb 27, 2019
The wider Kardashian family (including younger sisters Kylie and Kendall Jenner) do not seem to be able to stay out of the intellectual property news lately. Perhaps that is becau...
Epic Games to sue Exciting Events over Fortnite Live Norwich
Feb 20, 2019
Fortnite's owner Epic Games is quite used to intellectual property litigation (or at least threats of it). However, it is now turning claimant in a dispute with Exciting Events, th...
Counterfeiting in New York? Forget about it
Aug 9, 2018
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...
What's in a hyphen?
Aug 2, 2018
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...
LNDR and LDNR confuse Londoners
Jul 31, 2018
In the Intellectual Property and Enterprise Court, Mr Justice Arnold has ruled that Nike has infringed a trademark owned by Frank Industries ("Frank") that is uses for its women's ...
Rage Against rage against Farage
Jul 13, 2018
Rage Against The Machine ("Rage"), giants of global rock and metal, have accused Nigel Farage of intellectual property infringement over "brazen and unlawful" exploitation of their...
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