Intellectual Property News

For those trade mark and design right owners whose registered EU trade mark and EU design applications were still pending on 1 January 2021, they now have up until 30 September 202...

Norwich based gin maker Bullards recently applied to register its name as a trade mark at the UK Intellectual Property Office (“UKIPO”). Following the applied for mark being publi...

Oktoberfest is the famous yearly beer festival which takes place between September and October in Munich and attracts approximately six million people per year from all over the wo...

On 8 September 2021, the World Wrestling Entertainment (“WWE”) filed a new trade mark application at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) for the mark “EAT SLEEP...

Canada Goose is a famous winter clothing manufacturer founded in 1957. It has recently come under scrutiny in China over its marketing tactics which state that its coats are made ...

The European Court of Justice has ruled an audio file containing the sound of a drinks can opening followed by silence and a fizzing sound cannot be protected as a trade mark. ...

A Shanghai court has found Liu Mouyang guilty of criminal trade mark infringement. Mouyang was in the business of repackaged and reselling Ferreo Rocher’s heavenly chocolates, whic...

John Lydon, former Sex Pistols frontman has lost a High Court battle against two former band members to stop a new TV drama using the Sex Pistols music. Former band members Paul...

The University of Kentucky has filed a notice of opposition against a trade mark application filed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky for the sign “Team Kentucky”. The University of ...

James Newman is a British singer-songwriter who won the Brit Award for British Single of the Year as a co-writer of the 2013 Rudimental hit “Waiting All Night”. Kelly-Marie Sm...

McDaniels Law are delighted to announce they are the newest member to join Carlisle Ambassadors. The networking organisation, who help to influence the future of the city of Carlis...

Popular Swedish brand and household name Oatly has lost a trade mark battle against PureOaty, a family-run farm in Cambridgeshire. Oatly started proceedings on the basis the name P...