IP

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

The debate about the consequences and impact of regulatory policies has always been controversial. It is clear that the implementation…

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

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

Katie Howe, double award-winning trainee patent attorney at Barker Brettell, developed a love for science and in particular physics, from…

Intellectual Property (IP) can be important for any business, but for startups it can be a vital tool to help…

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

In 2015 £12.5 billion of food waste (£470 per household) was generated in the UK, contributing to a global total…

The Federation council of Russia has just approved a federal law ratifying the Hague Agreement.  The law will come into…

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

Cambodia has signed a Validation Agreement with the European Patent Office (EPO) to recognise European patents in Cambodia. This agreement…

Once again the wonders of graphene are back in the headlines, with the recent news of a graphene sieve that…