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Geographical Indications Consultation on UK GI scheme post-Brexit
Geographical Indications (GI) are a form of intellectual property that enables a product to be identified as originating from a particular country, region or locality where a given quality, reputation or other characteristic is attributable to that particular place it is produced. The existing EU schemes provide legal protection to… -
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Registrability: seeing a distinct pattern?
Patterns are difficult to obtain registered protection for as they are typically considered to lend an aesthetic appeal to goods. The pattern mark is a ‘new’ creature at the EUIPO, as it only became possible to categorise applications in this manner from 01 October 2017 onwards. Whilst the concept did… -
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Important changes to the Trade Marks Act & Rules January 2019
The Trade Marks Act 1994 (TMA) and Trade Marks Rules 2008 are due to change following implementation by the UKIPO of the EU Trade Mark Directive 2015. This article sets out a summary of the various changes due to come into effect on 14 January 2019. -
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Neuschwanstein: Bundesverband Souvenir - Geschenke - Ehrenpreise eV v EUIPO
This is a case in which the European Court of Justice has made a decision on a mark consisting of a German word that is not in accordance with the decision made by the German Federal Supreme Court on the same mark. -
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Hasbro retains MONOPOLY trade mark
MONOPOLY has been registered as a trade mark in the UK for board games since 1952, some years following the first release of the well known game in 1935. This decision concerns an application to revoke Hasbro’s registration on the ground that the trade mark was not been put to… -
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Celebrity trade mark hall of fame
Kim Kardashian, David Beckham, Rihanna - they all have one thing in common - trade marks. See which other celebrities made our trade marks hall of fame. -
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Community design applications priority claim assessments
In a bid to ease the administrative burden on applicants obtaining Community design registrations, the EUIPO has reduced the extent of examination it will undertake on any Community design application containing a priority claim to an earlier registered design application. -
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Boston Scientific v DPMA: SPCs & medical devices
Can a supplementary protection certificate (SPC) be granted for a substance which was an integral and active part of a medical device? In Boston Scientific v Deutsches Patent-und Markenamt (German Patent and Trade Mark Office - DPMA), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has provided some guidance. -
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Warner-Lambert Appeal: Swiss form claims & skinny labels
The long awaited Supreme Court decision in Warner-Lambert v Actavis was handed down on 14 November 2018. -
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Allowed text at the EPO: more than just a formality
A recent Technical Board of Appeal Decision, T506/16 provides an important reminder of the need to check carefully the text of a patent specification allowed by the European Patent Office (EPO).
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