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When is purchasing an old trade mark a good idea?
Trade mark infringement, honest concurrent use and so-called “moribund marks” were the focus of an interim decision in a case concerning...

Rosie Burbidge
Jan 12, 20222 min read


How do you interpret a copyright contract?
The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling by HHJ Hacon in the IPEC (first covered on the blog here) that copyright in a number of literary...

Rosie Burbidge
Jan 4, 20223 min read


What do recent EU trade mark and design judgments mean for the UK?
Although EU law is no longer binding on the UK, in practice, the laws remain the same and what happens in the EU courts will continue to...

Rosie Burbidge
Dec 8, 20214 min read


How Tolkein's estate reclaimed a copycat crypto domain name
The estate of JRR Tolkien recovered the domain name jrrtoken.com, from the owner of a crytpo website

Rosie Burbidge
Nov 26, 20212 min read


Can data protection be used as a quasi "image right"?
The answer to this question, in the UK at least, now appears to be "no". The UK Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by an individual to...

Rosie Burbidge
Nov 26, 20213 min read
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