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How to protect your brand when collaborating with controversy
Cannabis research firm Brightfield Group, recently raised its projections for the CBD (cannabidiol) industry, finding it could reach $22 billion…
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Silver screen to Body in White – next-generation tech was imagined in the 80s
Forget trawling through clandestine photos of heavily camouflaged prototype vehicles to get a first look at ‘the next big thing’…
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Popular, piercing and profitable – the growth of the street food market
From Argentinean to Austrian, Brazilian to Belgian and Colombian to Cypriot, the global street food market has exploded in recent…
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March of the designers, the brands and the specialists
2011 was a year of the Arab Spring, the Fukushima disaster, the end of Osama bin Laden and the entry…
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Charging trade marks up for the future
If you type the word ‘car’ into a well-known internet search engine, it will describe ‘a road vehicle, typically with…
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Fake Cosmetics = Fake News? Unfortunately not.
‘Fake News’ is everywhere, but where’s the discussion around fake cosmetics? Why are consumers happy to buy fake cosmetics? And,…
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Want to have your cake and eat it? Reformulate!
New regulations, recent government policies and consumer demand are putting pressure on the food and drink manufacturing industry to make…
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My star inventor is leaving to work with a competitor. What can I do?
It’s the letter no employer wants to receive: a key employee resigning to move to a rival company. But it…
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Small but mighty: Medical device technology punching above its weight
From tongue depressors to MRI machines to pace makers, the range of medical devices sold is vast. Today, the development…
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Keyless car theft: an unavoidable result of sloth*?
As it becomes ever less deniable that humans are naturally sloth-like** in their laziness (see here, here, and here), it…
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Search, protect and fortify…the cleanse, exfoliate and moisturise of IP
The cosmetics industry is one of the most lucrative in the world. In the UK alone, it has an estimated…
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