Strike a balance between protecting IP rights and complying with competition law. This topic provides IP practitioners with practical insights and strategies to navigate the interplay between innovation and market regulation. Understand the nuances of leveraging your intellectual property while avoiding anti-competitive practices. Equip yourself with the knowledge to ensure your clients' IP strategies are legally sound and commercially effective.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published final guidance on the application of the Chapter I prohibition in the Competition Act 1998...
Law360: On 4 November 2026, a California federal judge dismissed music publishers' claims against artificial intelligence (AI) behemoth Anthropic and...
EU Law analysis: In the first EU-level opinion related to copyright and generative AI, Advocate General (AG) Szpunar opined that real-time retrieval...
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...
Introduction to passing offUnlike many other countries, the UK has no unfair competition law. Brand owners seeking to prevent competitors from...
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 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 damageWhat is passing off?Passing off is a common law tort which protects rights that are not capable of...
What is the difference between an appeal and a review?What is an appeal?An appeal in insolvency proceedings is no different to an appeal in normal litigation. An appeal will be allowed only if the appeal court is satisfied that the decision of the lower court was 'wrong' or 'unjust because of a
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some point
Contributory negligence in personal injury claimsContributory negligence is a partial defence which can lead to a discount in damages.Other defences may also be relevant. See Practice Notes: Did the claimant consent to the risk of injury? and Was the claimant involved in an illegal activity?If a
Can shares in a limited company that have not been paid-up at all be cancelled?A limited company having a share capital may not alter that share capital, except in the ways listed in section 617 of the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006). Shares in a company cannot simply be cancelled without following an
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