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Watch Your Mouth – Despite What Your Contract States What You Say and Do Can Vary It

Watch Your Mouth – Despite What Your Contract States What You Say and Do Can Vary It

The recent Court of Appeal decision in MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd v Rock Advertising Ltd is the second recent Court of Appeal decision on the variation of contracts orally a...

Royalty Rates for Use of Musical Works in ITV Broadcasts Determined

Royalty Rates for Use of Musical Works in ITV Broadcasts Determined

The Copyright Tribunal has ruled on the yearly royalty rate to be paid by ITV Network Ltd, under its licence from PRS for Music (PRS) for the use of musical copyright works in tele...

Pharmaceutical Giant Experiences 'Pain' After Nurofen TV Advert Banned

Pharmaceutical Giant Experiences 'Pain' After Nurofen TV Advert Banned

The advertising watchdog has banned a TV advertisement for one of the biggest painkiller brands, Nurofen, because it alleged that the product could specifically target joint and ba...

Samsung and Apple Go Head to Head in Mobile Payment Market

Samsung and Apple Go Head to Head in Mobile Payment Market

Samsung and Apple, who together sell approx. 40% of smartphones globally, are about to go head to head in the mobile payments market as Samsung continues to roll out its new paymen...

End of the Annual Return - No More Happy Returns After 30 June

End of the Annual Return - No More Happy Returns After 30 June

As of 30 June important changes will come into force which will result in the Annual Return being abolished for companies and LLP's and a new requirement to file a Confirmation Sta...

Donald Aiming to Trump US Tax System by Moving Trademarks to Delaware

Donald Aiming to Trump US Tax System by Moving Trademarks to Delaware

It has been revealed that the Republican presidential candidate and billionaire businessman Donald Trump has moved his portfolio of trademarks to a company in Delaware which could ...

Fraud and Counterfeiting in the Food Industry makes the Sector Sick

Fraud and Counterfeiting in the Food Industry makes the Sector Sick

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...

Directors Defence Blown Apart in Trade Mark and Passing Off Claim

Directors Defence Blown Apart in Trade Mark and Passing Off Claim

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. ...

Sssshhhh, its a Secret - But is it Confidential? New EU Trade Secrets Law

Sssshhhh, its a Secret - But is it Confidential? New EU Trade Secrets Law

On 13 April the European Parliament voted on the proposed trade secrets directive ("Directive"). Current Laws Protecting Trade Secrets in England Trade secrets are reasonably wel...

BREXIT - Potential Impact and Risk to Contractual Relationships

BREXIT - Potential Impact and Risk to Contractual Relationships

We previously reported on the potential implications of a BREXIT relating to intellectual property in our earlier article "BREXIT - An IP Perspective". In order to complete a revi...

Law School in US makes an ASS of Itself

Law School in US makes an ASS of Itself

A US university was left embarrassed following their decision to rename a law school after late Supreme Court judge Antonin Scalia. George Mason University in Virginia said it wou...

Sporting Personalities, Brands and Contracts – Termination for Breach

Sporting Personalities, Brands and Contracts – Termination for Breach

Objectives of sponsorship Sponsorship is a form of marketing by which a sponsor (often a business) contributes funds, products and/or services to an event organiser, producer of a...

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