Trade marks

Branding, and the values it represents, is at the core of all businesses, so it is understandable that companies will…

As I previously reported, there is plenty of innovation in the soft drinks industry; some of this stems from the…

Changes to the law on groundless threats of infringement of Intellectual Property (IP) rights in the UK come into force…

It’s always been a grey area of the law, and no more so than in the car industry: when can…

There’s a veggie-driven revolution going on in the food industry right now. Led by customer demand for meat alternatives (the…

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…

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…

Fashion Fashion is a field that prides itself on being cutting edge or avant-garde, particularly at the level of the…

It is conventional wisdom that registering a trade mark in plain word format provides a business with the strongest rights…