The trial
Last week the High Court made a ruling in the case of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and others v Sky UK Ltd and others. This case has become known as a the Popcorn Time case as it centred around the app of the ...
Last week the High Court made a ruling in the case of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and others v Sky UK Ltd and others. This case has become known as a the Popcorn Time case as it centred around the app of the ...
A recent General Court of the EU decision in the Sky v. Skype body of cases that has spanned the last decade, will not be the final straw for Microsoft.  According to the BBC Microsoft who owns Skype, after acquiring it in 2013, h...
We all have something to say when it comes to food but the real question is what are you doing with it? Other than eating it of course, the movers and shakers of the digital age have found innovative ways to give you more than jus...
Now that the European Parliament is in the process of introducing the new EU Trade Secrets Directive, we decided to put the spotlight on this topic and discuss in practical terms what trade secrets are, explain why employees are ...
A recent research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has revealed that the price to be paid by UKâs small firms and start up businesses to protect their intellectual property would very often cost them their ability to...
Last week was the Cannes Lions week, where some of the worldâs most known brands descended on the south of France for the worldâs biggest annual awards show and festival for professionals in the creative communications industry. T...
Recently, the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reinstated a case filed by Multi Time Machine against Amazon over trade mark infringement and published its opinion last week. This opinion reverses a lower court decision he...
In April this year Apple released their newest product â the Apple Watch. Only a few months after the release date a petition was filed in a Milan court accusing Apple of violating the iWatch trade mark. You may recall that in 20...
Whilst the classification rules apply to the majority of trademarks, famous marks operate under slightly different rules. A famous mark has a much broader scope of protection than an ordinary mark. This is due to its widespread r...
Oracle has demonstrated that copyright can be a highly valuable and strategic intellectual property asset worth more than some patents. In Shireen Smithâs earlier post âAre APIs Protected By Copyright? â Google v Oracleâ the far ...
An independent report commissioned by the IPO entitled Evaluation of the Reforms of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court 2010-2013 was published very recently examining the effect of the recent reforms in the Intellectual P...
If you have trademarked your brand name, it can be disconcerting to find that someone else beat you to it and registered it on a social media site.
The latest dispute to erupt on this question involves Instagram where Kalamazoo...
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