Intellectual Property News

In 1939 Italy and San Marino signed the convention of Friendship and Good Neighbourhood. As a result of this agreement all registered intellectual property rights obtained in Italy...

The first criminal trial to use iPads in a bid to reduce paperwork got underway yesterday.  Members of the jury sitting on a three-month fraud trial at Southwark Crown Court were h...

A recent report by the Civil Justice Council has highlighted the fact that bringing low value claims in the current court system is too costly, too slow and too complex, and the me...

Where a business has directed its activities to an EU member state in which a consumer is domiciled it can generally only sue the consumer in that member state and the consumer can...

Further to our last update (26.01.2015) on the issue of rising court fee costs, there has been a further update as yet another group are contesting the proposed increases which wil...

We recently reported on the changes being made to the Part 36 Offers regime - see http://mcdanielslaw.com/changes-to-cpr-part-36-offers/ The IPKat has today released a news story ...

As reported previously (see post of 21.01.15) the cost of bringing a claim is set to rise. Another organisation has now joined in the chorus of disapproval over the new court fees...

From 6 April 2015 a new version of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) Part 36 will come into force with some significant changes as to the construction and implementation of Part 36 O...

The government has announced that it will go ahead with its proposal to introduce percentage issue fees for money claims over £10,000, calculated as 5% of the value of the claim su...

At the beginning of October the Intellectual Property Act (IP Act) became law, heralding better protection for designers. It is now a crime to intentionally infringe a registered d...