Variant use, promotional use & partial revocation: easyGroup partially successful at the Court of Appeal

01 September 2025
Two recent Court of Appeal decisions, easyGroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd (EasyLive) and easyGroup Ltd v Easyfundraising Ltd…
Mia McIntyre
Mia McIntyre
Legal and Trade Mark Administrator
Sophie Rann
Sophie Rann
Trade Mark Attorney
Variant use, promotional use & partial revocation: easyGroup partially successful at the Court of Appeal

Sales of own products qualify as genuine use for retail services: Board of Appeal overturns EUIPO’s restrictive approach

01 September 2025
The Board of Appeal has confirmed that retail services limited to the trade mark proprietor’s own products may constitute genuine…
Julian Graf Wrangel
Julian Graf Wrangel
Associate, Rechtsanwalt
Sales of own products qualify as genuine use for retail services: Board of Appeal overturns EUIPO’s restrictive approach

SkyKick in practice: broad specification leads to finding of bad faith

01 September 2025
The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has applied the Supreme Court judgment in SkyKick UK Ltd and Anor v…
Charlotte Duly
Charlotte Duly
Partner, Trade Mark Attorney
SkyKick in practice: broad specification leads to finding of bad faith

Iconix v Dream Pairs: UK Supreme Court confirms relevance of post-sale confusion in infringement assessment

01 September 2025
This Supreme Court decision highlights the relevance of post-sale confusion to the assessment of similarity and confusion in UK trade…
Ella Lane
Ella Lane
Associate, Solicitor
Phil Leonard
Phil Leonard
Associate, Solicitor
Iconix v Dream Pairs: UK Supreme Court confirms relevance of post-sale confusion in infringement assessment

Comparable UK trade marks and genuine use: post-Brexit update

01 September 2025
On 01 January 2021, the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) cloned existing EU trade mark registrations and protected EU…
Jennifer Heath
Jennifer Heath
Senior Associate, Trade Mark Attorney
Comparable UK trade marks and genuine use: post-Brexit update

Domain name disputes: decision considers use of a trade mark by a reseller

19 August 2025
The Czech Arbitration Court recently ruled in a Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) dispute over the domain name lostmarydirect.com.
Charlotte Duly
Charlotte Duly
Partner, Trade Mark Attorney
Domain name disputes: decision considers use of a trade mark by a reseller

Patenting in an era of infrastructure renaissance: insights from Europe

12 August 2025
In 2025, Germany amended its constitution to create a staggering €500 billion fund for infrastructure modernisation. This is the largest…
Jonathan Jackson
Jonathan Jackson
Partner, Patent Attorney
Patenting in an era of infrastructure renaissance: insights from Europe

G 1/25 referral: is it necessary to amend the description of the European patent?

07 August 2025
In G 1/25, questions have been referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal to clarify whether it is necessary to…
Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith
Associate, Patent Attorney
G 1/25 referral: is it necessary to amend the description of the European patent?

Patenting industrial AI in Europe

06 August 2025
While AI assistants, LLMs (large language models) and generative AI are beginning to dramatically change our work and home lives,…
Arun Roy
Arun Roy
Partner, Patent Attorney
Patenting industrial AI in Europe

History, opportunities and challenges for protecting gene therapies: perspectives from private practice and industry

01 August 2025
Recent years have seen an explosion of advanced therapies, many of which are based on personalised immune cells, individually edited…
Jennifer O'Farrell
Jennifer O'Farrell
Partner, Patent Attorney
History, opportunities and challenges for protecting gene therapies: perspectives from private practice and industry

G 1/23 and enablement: are commercially available products state of the art?

01 August 2025
In this eagerly awaited European Patent Office (EPO) decision, the Enlarged Board of Appeal concluded that a product put on…
Oliver Cartwright
Oliver Cartwright
Associate, Patent Attorney
G 1/23 and enablement: are commercially available products state of the art?

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