Category: IP Developments

When did simple or minimal branding become so desirable? Did it start with Coco Chanel’s No.5 perfume bottle in 1924?…

Can we really say that, in today’s global economy, the size of an automotive brand is no longer important? Should…

A patent for an invention provides its owner with the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale…

Advice on how to secure design right protection is plentiful, but is it effective? As the top UK representative filer…

The more successful the brand, the more likely the products will be targeted by counterfeiters and the automotive industry is…

In the UK, it is estimated that one million tonnes of plastic packaging goes to landfill every year. The 2015…

It is a problem that, as trade mark attorneys, we come across all too often – trade mark owners find…

The long awaited changes to Canadian trade mark laws have finally been announced and will come into force as of…

This article was previously published in Intellectual Property Magazine, November 2018. Registered designs are the fastest growing intellectual property right…

Whether you know it as CASE or ACES[i], the impact of those four letters on the automotive sector looks set…

As an early stage business, don’t be fooled into thinking that just because you are smaller, you have nothing to…

The patent system operates on the basis of a simple premise—to encourage innovators to share the secrets of their new,…