Intellectual Property News

The leading online marketplace Alibaba is being sued by the owner of Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Puma and various other leading fashion brands, Kering following a failed attempt to ...

Intellectual property law has long since recognised the overlap between copyright and design right. The Registered Designs Act 1949 was intended to create a separate system for pr...

The Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) plan on rolling out some changes to the online filing process of Community Designs and Community Trade Marks through the ...

Barring the most astute and commercially aware, many students, when signing up to a university or college course would not have given much thought as to the ownership of their inte...

Use of 3D printing technology is not yet commonplace.  However, we are starting to reach a point where private individuals and businesses are seriously thinking about what 3D print...

A new design opinion service is set to be introduced by the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO). The purpose of the service is to provide advice on potential design disputes. ...

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) have announced that Japan and the United States of America will join forces with the other signatories to the Hague Agreement in...

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...

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...