It has been a little over a year since the General Data Protection Regulations came into force, imposing extensive privacy and data protection requirements and raising penalties for non-compliance to a maximum of 4% of annual worldwide turnover or €20 million, whichever is greater. It has been quiet for a while since the introduction of…
DetailsFollowing on from our previous blog about Cardi B’s trade mark registration of “okurrr,” we now have the results and it’s not good for Cardi. The application to trade mark her catchphrase “okurrr” has been turned down by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The benefits of having a catchphrase registered as a trade mark…
DetailsAs an artist, it may seem like a daunting task to seek to make a living from your creative work. One critical step on the way to becoming a commercially successful artist is ensuring that your Intellectual Property is adequately protected. This will not only allow you to commercially exploit your art through the sale…
DetailsAngry Birds is a beloved mobile game created by Rovio Entertainment. It was first released for iOS in 2006 and since then it has been downloaded billions of times worldwide. There has also been an Angry Birds movie, a comic book mini-series and a comic strip series. The sequel to the first movie is due…
DetailsWe can all sympathise with a company trying to protect its brand identity, indeed this is exactly why we have a trade mark registration system. However, this system does have limits and every-so-often those limits are tested rather extensively. This is particularly true of the recent saga with an EU trade mark held by adidas……
DetailsIf you’re setting up your own business then you know that your brand is one of your most powerful assets. You’ve put time and creative energy into developing it, but how can you be sure that it won’t be used by someone else? With a registered trade mark start-ups win on every front – their…
DetailsBasketball star Kawhi Leonard is taking on Nike, his former sponsor, in a trade mark dispute over his personal logo. Kawhi originally designed his signature logo, “KLAW”, in his college years, a design which consists of his initials ‘KL’ and his jersey number ‘2’ stylised into the shape of his famously large hands which, spectators…
DetailsWe have said it before but it is worth repeating, get it in writing! Why? Because time and time again we are consulted by those who have contributed creative work unpaid to a start-up business with the promise of a reward of some kind which then does not materialise. This week this same story has hit…
DetailsSo, your business or product has been featured in a newspaper or magazine article and you want to share it with the world. Are you free to do so? You might think that because an article is about you or your business or your products that you can copy it, reproduce it, share it, or…
DetailsBlack Panther is a blockbuster Marvel movie produced in 2018. The superhero movie was based on a fictional African country Wakanda, a hidden technologically advanced country. Black Panther became the first comic book and superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, as well as the first film in the Marvel…
DetailsSomewhat counterintuitively, not all ideas and concepts can be protected by “intellectual property” rights (such as copyright, designs etc.). Instead, such information may only be protected by keeping it confidential – but what happens if you wish to disclose that information to third parties? Well, this is where non-disclosure agreements come into play. Background It…
DetailsWas GDPR really such a big deal? People started talking about the notorious GDPR in earnest in 2016. It was the veritable Eye of Sauron. It was definitely coming. And it was probably going to get you. Maybe your children too. There was a lot of talk about consent. If you overheard someone’s name or…
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