Intellectual Property News

RoboCopp LLC is an American company that specialises in personal security. They are known for having invented a personal alarm which they named SOUND GRENADE.  In June 2016 RoboCop...

Scotch Whisky has been granted trade mark protection after the application of the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) to register the name in Taiwan was successful. The protection will...

Iceland is in the spotlight in the trade mark world, following a number of legal disputes regarding the use of the word "Iceland" in trade marks. Iceland Foods has been, since 201...

It can sometimes seem like Apple is taking over the world, with its products increasingly ubiquitous and new launches hotly anticipated. They have however experienced some negative...

An interesting case has been decided in Germany recently where the European Union has been successful in obtaining the cancellation of a trade mark which it claimed infringed on th...

ASOS, the UK based online fashion and beauty store aimed at young adults, has been left counting the significant cost of having settled a trade mark dispute with two European rival...

Skyscape Cloud Services Ltd v Sky Plc and others [2016] EWHC 1340 (IPEC) Sky plc were formed in 1990 and merged with British Satellite Broadcasting becoming the UK's largest digit...

The High Court has ruled against individual Karen Millen (Millen) in a long running contract dispute with her former company for the right to trade under her own name (the Brand) i...

The government (relatively) recently (April 2015) introduced large increases to fees for issuing a claim in the civil courts. As a result, the issue fee for a claim that may be in ...

Specsavers Optical Group Ltd (Specsavers) has received initial approval from the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) on the registration of "should've" and "shoudve" as UK trad...

Plenty of us are in the Olympic Spirit despite having to stay up late into the night to catch some of the exciting. Journalists continue to report on the latest sporting developmen...

We have previously reported on the possible impact of Brexit on Intellectual Property (IP), most recently on 8 August 2016 following the publication of a (short) guidance note by t...