‘Don’t weaponise your trade marks’ is the overarching message following the eagerly awaited High Court ruling in Sky plc v…

After a 13 year legal battle – in which the inventor lost every previous round – the Supreme Court has…

In a recent decision, following an application for revocation filed by Supermac’s (Holdings) Ltd, the EUIPO Cancellation Division upheld the…

As we have already reported here, many trade mark owners seeking to register their mark in China have found that…

Many of us may be very proud of our cars; maybe we even think they are beautiful. But would anyone…

This article was originally published in the January 2019 edition of CITMA Review. Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha Ltd (Mitsubishi) holds a…

We have previously reported here on the PRETUL case, which confirmed that original equipment manufacturing (OEM) use of a trade…

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has clarified that the red sole trade mark did not constitute a shape mark…

The United States Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) has recently granted a trade mark for the scent of Play-Doh….

It’s always been a grey area of the law, and no more so than in the car industry: when can…

What is IP? IP can be a trade mark (which is the legal name for your brand), a design (which…

It is conventional wisdom that registering a trade mark in plain word format provides a business with the strongest rights…