Intellectual Property News

The UK based comedy venue, The Glee Club, has been successful in the Court of Appeal in respect of a judgment reserved from an earlier decision. The appeal related to an appeal by...

A French company (the Applicant) has failed in its appeal against the rejection of its EU trade mark Application. The Application was rejected on the basis of an Earlier Mark, 'BLU...

The Swiss Federal Administrative Court issued a decision on 27 April, agreeing with the Swiss IPO decision to refuse a trade mark application to register the colour red on the sole...

It has been widely reported (see the BBC article by clicking here) that image rights negotiations are the cause of delaying Jose Mourinho's appointment as the new Manchester United...

The EU General Court has dismissed an appeal against the rejection of an application to register both the figurative mark and word mark "MARK1" (Marks) in classes 9 and 34 for ciga...

John Cleese is considering legal action against an Australian theatre company's "brazen, utterly shameless" rip off of his successful television series 'Fawlty Towers', from which ...

Food fraud might not be something that much consideration has been given to by the wider population, however, it is a real problem and one which may cause serious harm. Examples i...

New strategies and proposals have been set out in a Government paper entitled, "Protecting creativity, supporting innovation: IP Enforcement 2020", published 10 May 2016.  The docu...

A decision of the EUIPO Board of Appeal has been declared invalid by the EU General Court in relation the word mark "AROMA". Background Mr Peter Chung-Yuan Chang ("applicant") ap...

We have previously covered recent case law the long-running legal battles between Nestle and Cadbury. Our article on Cadbury's successful opposition to Nestlé's application for a t...

A company director has been found jointly liable for trade mark infringement and passing off in claim brought about by a company specialising in sports performance and nutrition. ...

On 14 April 2016, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) dismissed an appeal to set aside a decision of the EU General Court (EUGC) made in July 2015 in relation to the registration o...