Intellectual Property News

The current United States presidential election has created an ongoing deluge of controversial moments from both running candidates. However, it seems that even once the election h...

Lucasfilm and its new owner, the Walt Disney Company, own the intellectual property relating to all of the Star Wars films.  Walt Disney Company in particular is famously protectiv...

A trade mark co-existence agreement enables two different businesses use a similar or identical trade mark to market products or services without necessarily interfering with the b...

The two founders of popular Scottish brewery BrewDog have taken the unusual step of changing their Christian names to 'Elvis' in response to a threat of legal action from the estat...

Globo Comunicação e Participações (GCP), a leading media group in Brazil, has been refused registration of an EU sound mark. The application, which was filed in April 2014, was r...

Rangers Football Club have been engaged in a dispute with a rugby fan, Mr Russell Campbell, over the football club's application to register a trade mark for "RFC" and "R.F.C" in a...

In the recent case of Internet Consulting GmbH v European Union Intellectual Property Office (Case T-11/15), the General Court (GC) has discussed the possibilities of having trade ...

A recent reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has resulted in the clarification of an interesting point of law concerning injunctions relating to European...

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...