Category: IP Developments

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved plans to increase the number of top-level domain names…

At present, there are 22 generic Top Level Domain names (gTLDs) including .com, .org and .net.  However, with ICANN’s new…

Nominet is a public purpose internet company which has been running the .uk country code Top Level Domain name registry…

The Patents County Court (PCC) has introduced a small claims track, for claims under £5,000, which can be used for…

The Madrid Protocol system provides for the international registration of trade marks by way of one application that can cover…

At the Brussels summit on 29 June 2012, the national leaders of the EU countries reached a compromise deal regarding…

A potentially very valuable corporation tax reduction mechanism is being finalised by the UK government.  This is called the “Patent…

The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) recently considered an opposition by Nestlé to Cadbury’s UK trade mark application which…

The UK government is continuing to press ahead with its proposed “patent box” tax regime, under which businesses paying corporation…

Despite the difficult economic times the European Patent Office (EPO) received a record number of new patent filings in 2011….

A number of Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) programmes exist between national patent offices to allow patent applications to be granted…

The Patents County Court (PCC) is designed as a low-cost forum for the settlement of intellectual property disputes in England…