This Practice Note examines the likely impact of Brexit on IP rights. It deals with key issues that may affect the owners of trade marks, design rights, copyright and...
This Practice Note examines the complex relationship between copyright and designs. For more information about designs law and copyright law, see: Design transactions and...
There are four key design rights in the UK: • UK registered design • UK unregistered design • Community registered design • Community unregistered...
Managing a design dispute This Practice Note sets out the practical and strategic considerations to be taken into account by practitioners and their clients when bringing...
Background The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court ( IPEC ) is a specialist list of the Intellectual Property List (Chancery Division) which is intended to provide...
Introduction to the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court ( IPEC ) is a specialist list of the Intellectual Property List...
This Practice Note considers Regulation (EU) 608/2013 (the Customs Regulation). The Customs Regulation came into force on 1 January 2014 and replaced Regulation (EC)...
What is 3D printing? Conventionally objects have been made by casting in a mould or by machining material from a block of steel, wood or the like or some combination of...
This Practice Note compares patents, supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), trade secrets, copyright, database rights, design rights, trade marks and causes of...
Background to semiconductors A semiconductor is essentially any material which has electrical conductivity and can thus either conduct, or conversely, block, the flow of...
Scope This Practice Note explains trade mark law on parallel trade. Parallel imports, or ‘grey market’ goods, are genuine goods that are placed on the market by, or with...
This Practice Note covers the legislative framework, as well as case law, relating to infringement of registered and unregistered designs. For subsistence of design...
Design regimes in the UK Several different design rights are available in the UK: • UK registered designs • registered Community designs (RCDs) (in force across entire...
ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. This Practice Note sets out the law of unjustified threats of UK and Community design right...
This Practice Note summarises the application and purpose of the law of unjustified threats in the UK. Anyone writing or sending a letter or other communication alleging,...
Background The ability to block websites is within the power of the internet service providers (ISPs) who provide the service of connecting users to internet content....