Author: Jane Cureton

Cosmetic Warriors Ltd (“CW”) has been successful in a UK High Court (HC) infringement action against Amazon.co.uk and Amazon EU…

The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), formerly known as the Patents County Court for England and Wales until its change…

Tesco’s trade mark applications for the CLUBCARD mark and the stylised variation thereof, have been refused by the UK Intellectual…

Last summer we reported on the fact that Cadbury had successfully opposed a UK trade mark application by Nestlé for…

In a recent post on the Manufacturing Matters blog, our Nick Braddon asks whether, given the importance of IP to…

The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) and Trading Standards have joined forces to try and bring an end to the misleading…

With effect from 1 April 2014, many European Patent Office (EPO) official fees will increase. On the whole the increases…

It has been reported that the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods seems to escalate during the Christmas season.  Counterfeit…

Background to the dispute On 29 April 2002, the intervener, Castel Frères SAS, filed a CTM Application No. 2678167 CASTEL…

It’s all change at the Patents County Court.  Firstly, the (somewhat confusing) name has gone, as part of a restructure…

One of our trade mark partners Rosalyn Newsome was invited by Katy Simpson, Head of Yorkshire & Clydesdale Bank, to…

The Internet is changing.  Hundreds of new domain name extensions, or generic top-level domains (gTLDs), will soon start appearing online…