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This article was first published on Lexis®PSL IP on 11 September 2017. Click for a free trial of Lexis®PSL. Since the 1st October 2017, ‘virtual’ or ‘web’ marking of…

Leading Intellectual Property (IP) specialist Barker Brettell has announced that its 2016 UK trade mark filings grew by five times…

What is IP? IP can be a trade mark (which is the legal name for your brand), a design (which…

The European Patent Office (EPO) and the Russian Patent Office (ROSPATENT) have agreed a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot programme…

Trading under your name is an appealing idea, especially in the fashion world where designers frequently use their own names…

From Leicester City winning the Premier League to Donald Trump becoming the US president-elect, 2016 was a year of the…

Carrie Johnson, patent attorney and partner continues Barker Brettell’s series on design protection by looking into how designs and trade…

When a European Patent is granted the applicant has to decide on the countries in which the patent will be…

As another year passes, the latest figures on International IP activity for 2015 have been released by the World Intellectual…

We have written previously in January 2015 and in June 2016 about the case G 1/15 before the Enlarged Board…

The saga of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has taken another twist, meaning that the much talked about court system…

Gaming technology has come a long way in the past four decades, developing from the earliest two-dimensional video games such…