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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.
Copyright
Practical information about copyright, moral rights, performers’ rights and rights in performances. Get precedent copyright assignments and licences here.
Trade marks
Practical information about trade marks, passing off, geographical indications and anti-counterfeiting. Get precedent trade mark assignments and licences here.
Patents
Practical information about patents and supplementary protection certificates. Get precedent patent assignments and licences here.
IP disputes
Get guidance on strategic and practical steps for dealing with IP disputes, including ways of trying to avoid them in the first place. Our case analysis highlights points from judgments so you can be confident at work.
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Latest IP News
The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) has launched its 'EFRAG 2025 State of Play' portal, providing analysis of the first 656...
The European Commission has published an Explanatory Notice and Template to guide providers of general-purpose AI (GPAI) models in meeting their...
This week's edition of IP weekly highlights includes: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content from the world of IP. These...
Law360, London: Counsel for the UK's intellectual property authority lambasted an AI company's application to replace the country's established tests...
Public Law analysis: The High Court discharged a super-injunction in the case of Ministry of Defence v Global Media and Entertainment Ltd, marking a...
Latest IP Practice Notes
Intellectual property, innovation and the environmentClimate change and loss of biodiversity are significant and urgent challenges. There is an...
Intellectual property—remediesThis Practice Note focuses primarily on the civil remedies available for infringement of trade marks, design rights and...
Trade mark infringement and interim injunctionsThis Practice Note explores the use of interim relief in trade mark proceedings.Owing to the nature of...
Trade mark infringement—UKThis Practice Note covers infringement of UK trade marks registered under the Trade Marks Act 1994 (TMA 1994). It considers...
UK Rome II—application and interpretationThis Practice Note is for use when determining applicable law in the courts of England and Wales respect of...
Latest IP Precedents
Declaration of a director’s interests in an existing transaction or arrangement—general noticeThe Directors[Insert name of company][(Company)][Insert...
Declaration of a director’s interests in a proposed transaction or arrangement—general noticeThe directors[Insert name of company] ([Company])[Insert...
Declaration of a director’s interests in a proposed transaction or arrangement—notice in writingThe directors[Insert name of...
Briefing for directors—general duties under the Companies Act 2006Every director of a company owes a number of duties to the company they are...
Declaration of a director’s interests in an existing transaction or arrangement—notice in writingThe directors[Insert name of company]...
Latest IP Q&As
Featured IP content
Introduction to passing off
Introduction to passing offUnlike many other countries, the UK has no unfair competition law. Brand owners seeking to prevent competitors from...
Trade mark infringement—UK
Trade mark infringementRights conferred by a trade mark registrationThe registration of a trade mark gives the owner the exclusive right to prevent...
Copyright—authorship and ownership
Copyright—authorship and ownershipThe Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) defines the author of a work as the person who created it....
Passing off—goodwill, misrepresentation and damage
Passing off—goodwill, misrepresentation and damageWhat is passing off?Passing off is a common law tort which protects rights that are not capable of...
Absolute and relative grounds for refusal to register a UK trade mark
Absolute and relative grounds for refusal to register a UK trade markAbsolute and relative groundsA trade mark’s essential function is to be a badge...
Copyright infringement—remedies
Copyright infringement—remediesThis Practice Note covers the remedies available for copyright infringement.The remedies available in cases of...
Introduction to revocation of patents
Introduction to revocation of patentsPatents may be revoked, that is, taken off the register of patents, if it is decided that they are invalid in...
Joint ownership of intellectual property rights
Joint ownership of intellectual property rightsWhen parties collaborate on creative projects or research and development, complex questions arise...
Sub-licensing intellectual property rights
Sub-licensing intellectual property rightsAn intellectual property (IP) owner may choose to license its IP to a third party. This can be an effective...
Brand protection online—strategy
Brand protection online—strategyHaving an online presence is essential for most brands. Many advertise and sell their products online—on their own...
Types of dispute resolution
Types of dispute resolutionThis Practice Note provides an overview of the main types of dispute resolution that are an alternative to litigation in IP...
Parallel imports—UK
Parallel imports—UKThe legal frameworkThis Practice Note explains trade mark law on parallel trade. Parallel imports, or ‘grey market’ goods, are...
Know-how—protection and licensing
Know-how—protection and licensingThis Practice Note explains what know-how is and sets out the different ways know-how can be protected before...
Copyright—secondary infringement
Copyright—secondary infringementWhereas primary infringement requires in most instances the act of reproduction, secondary infringement is about...
Licensing intellectual property rights
Licensing intellectual property rightsLicensing IP rights—introductionDrafting IP licences can raise a number of commercial and legal issues, which...
Application to register a UK trade mark
Application to register a UK trade markThis Practice Note provides guidance on applying to register a trade mark at the UK Intellectual Property...
IP rights and semiconductors
IP rights and semiconductorsBackground to semiconductorsA semiconductor is essentially any material which has electrical conductivity and can thus...
Can the assignment of a patent be retroactively effective?
Associated legal terms
Communication to the public
The communication to the public of a copyright work is an act restricted by the copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, a sound recording or film, or a broadcast.
Exclusive licensee
An exclusive licence is a licence in writing signed by or on behalf of the copyright owner authorising the licensee to the exclusion of all other persons, including the person granting the licence, to exercise a right which would otherwise be exercisable exclusively by the copyright owner.
Offering a patented invention
The offering of a patented product is an infringement act.
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