Trade marks

It’s always been a grey area of the law, and no more so than in the car industry: when can…

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…

Following on from the overview by Sarah Lait, head of Barker Brettell’s trade mark practice, and the more in-depth discussion…

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

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…

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

As long as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, it seems there will always be…

The European Union Observatory on infringements of Intellectual Property rights (the Observatory) published a report in July 2016 focussing on…

Register before 31 December 2016 to ensure protection A new trade mark law has been published in the Cayman Islands…