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At the end of the Brexit transition period the UKIPO created comparable UK rights for all EU registrations and EU…

Despite the challenges of the last few months and the uncertainty caused by COVID-19, June saw a record number of…

Barker Brettell, a leading UK firm of intellectual property specialists, named in 2020 by The Financial Times in its top…

Background The Chinese Supreme People’s Court has issued a decision which brings to an end a four year long battle…

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

Trading under your name is an appealing idea, especially in the fashion world where designers frequently use their own names…

Carrie Johnson, patent attorney and partner continues Barker Brettell’s series on design protection by looking into how designs and trade…

Gaming technology has come a long way in the past four decades, developing from the earliest two-dimensional video games such…

As long as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, it seems there will always be…

The European Union Observatory on infringements of Intellectual Property rights (the Observatory) published a report in July 2016 focussing on…

Over the next few months we’ll be bringing you a series of articles looking into design protection. Today, patent attorney…

Market demand for novel clean packaging solutions is on the rise as environmental concerns increase, crude oil becomes more expensive…