With the laws around Intellectual Property and Information Technology changing all the time, keeping pace is hard enough. But knowing the law isn’t enough. You need to know what those changes are going to mean for your clients. The big picture, the fine detail, the impact and the next steps.
LexisPSL IP & IT helps you get ahead of the competition by showing you what’s on the horizon. It’s full of practical guidance from our own in-house lawyers, outside experts and consulting editorial board – with direct links to cases, legislation and primary authorities like Butterworths and Halsbury.
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Categorisation Copyright is the exclusive right to do, and authorise others to do, certain acts in relation to copyright works. Copyright works have been formally...
Unlike many other countries, the UK has no unfair competition law. Brand owners seeking to prevent competitors from marketing ‘copycat’ products or using misleading...
This Practice Note provides an introduction to: • what is a trade mark? • registering a trade mark • dealing with trade marks in agreements • asserting trade marks •...
The Patents Act 1977 (PA 1977) treats patents and patent applications as personal property rights. Rights in inventions, patents and patent applications can be...
This new starter guide provides an introduction to intellectual property (IP) law. It is aimed at trainee solicitors and those who are new to IP as a practice area. This...
When parties collaborate on creative projects or research and development, complex questions arise about the ownership of any resulting intellectual property (IP). Joint...
This new starter guide provides an introduction to copyright law. It focuses on highlighting the basic principles that apply and includes numerous links to other...
The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) defines the author of a work as the person who created it. The author as creator is not always the owner of a...
The registration of a trade mark gives the owner the exclusive right to prevent others from using that mark without their consent. It is important that any...
Trade marks can be directly exploited by the trade mark owner (ie by self-use) but a trade mark owner can also generate income by transferring rights in the mark to other...
Passing off is a common law tort which protects rights that are not capable of registration or are difficult to register as trade marks (eg colours, get-up...
The registration of a trade mark gives the owner the exclusive right to prevent others from using that mark, or a similar mark, without their consent. A trade mark owner...
This Practice Note provides guidance on legal issues arising from the commercial use of photographs. Photographs are central to many commercial activities,...
This Practice Note is intended for commercial lawyers not specialised in intellectual property (IP). It provides an introduction to copyright and associated rights...
Qualifying for copyright protection Copyright recognises the intellectual creation of an author when a work is created. The law is set out mainly in the Copyright,...
What is know-how? ‘Know-how’ is technical or practical knowledge resulting from research or experience and usually relates to the way something is done. This technical or...
