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If a building plot with planning permission is purchased, is there an inherent right to build according to the plans and specifications of the planning permission or would such use constitute infringement of the design rights and copyright in the plans? If permission is required, how and from whom can permission be sought?
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A 50% shareholder has registered a trade mark in the name of the company in which it owns shares, without having been authorised by the director to do so. Is the shareholder able to take such action on behalf of the company? Can the company be bound to the registration?
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Can a third party use other persons logos brands that are registered as trademarks and classed as intellectual property for promoting their services? If not what action can be taken to ask the third party to remove their logos/brands?
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Where an attorney is purporting to execute on behalf of a number of principals, is it essential (as opposed to merely good practice) for there to be multiple execution blocks or is it sufficient for the attorney to execute once only but make it clear in the execution block that he/she is doing so as attorney for multiple principals?
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For copyright to subsist in a literary work, among other requirements, it must be ‘recorded in writing or otherwise’ (CDPA 1988, s 3 (2)). If a work is created in the cloud (hosted on a server based in, say, India), how will this affect the UK’s test for copyright subsistence?
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Associated legal terms

Absolute novelty

Absolute novelty, in patent law, means that an invention is new if it has not been used or published anywhere in the world.

Crown copyright

A Crown copyright work is a work made by Her Majesty or by an officer or servant of the Crown in the course of his or her duties, which will qualify for copyright protection and Her Majesty is the first owner of any copyright in the work.

Right to be identified

The author of a copyright literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, and the director of a copyright film, has the right to be identified as the author or director of the work.
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