Designs & Copyright

In recent years, China has been taking active steps to tighten its laws to tackle the ongoing problem of trade…

Changes to the law on groundless threats of infringement of Intellectual Property (IP) rights in the UK come into force…

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

Registered designs are becoming an increasingly important part of a company’s IP portfolio. For simple or whole products, protection is…

There’s a veggie-driven revolution going on in the food industry right now. Led by customer demand for meat alternatives (the…

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

The UK Court of Appeal (CoA) has upheld the decision of the High Court (HC) that the shape of Nestlé’s…

Registered designs protect the appearance of an article.  Filing an application is easy, and is fairly quick and inexpensive.  But,…

Section 52 of the UK’s Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) was repealed on 28 July 2016.  A…

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…

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