Intellectual Property News

Two collective rights management organisations are to merge. PRS for Music (Performing Rights Society – PRS) represents the rights of over 115,000 songwriters, composers and music ...

Grumpy Cat is a cat with a permanent grumpy face due to an under bite and feline dwarfism. Her owner, Tabatha Bundesen, posted a picture of the cat to social news website Reddit in...

In a recent US (Illinois, Northern District) case Caterpillar Inc. was ordered by a jury to pay $74.6million (approximately £50million) in exemplary damages in a fierce lawsuit by ...

The purpose of the Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Competent Authorities and Information) Regulations 2015 is to provide consumers with information about prov...

Irishman Roy Barry, adamant that talent show "The Voice" is based on his idea, has vowed to bring claim in the Dutch Courts against the Dutch producers of The Voice, Talpa Media, a...

Contracts may contain terms which set out what remedy the innocent party may claim in the event of breach by another. This is normally financial but may include the transfer of pro...

The recent High Court case of Honeyrose Bakery Ltd v Lola's Kitchen Ltd (t/a Lola's Cupcakes) has reinforced the principles of contractual interpretation set out in the judgement o...

Sony is currently being sued by 19 Recordings Ltd.  Sony has taken a financial stake in the music download site Spotify and therefore benefits from general advertising revenue howe...

London fashion designer, Ozwald Boateng, is quoted as saying that: "you cannot have style if you don't have substance", and two-time Wimbledon Ladies Single winner Petra Kvitovia i...

Ticket2Final v Wigan Athletic AFC highlights the need for parties to a contract to comply fully with any formal notice provisions in the contract when they seek to terminate it. It...

The accountants are accused of negligence over their auditing of the building society's accounts between 2006 and 2013. "The claim primarily covers Grant Thornton's advice and aud...

An interesting and noteworthy decision is the one made by Robert Engelhart QC in Fresh Trading Limited v. Deepend Fresh Recovery Limited and Andrew T R Chappel [2015] EWHC 52 (Ch)....