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

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

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…

Barker Brettell has been awarded ‘Trademark Prosecution Firm of the Year 2019’ in the UK by Managing IP, the global…

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

Barker Brettell, the UK-headquartered intellectual property (IP) specialist, will open the doors of its new Swedish office on the 1st…

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

Intellectual property specialist Barker Brettell has been awarded gold tier status in the 2019 World Trademark Review (WTR), stepping up…

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…