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Copyright
Practical information about copyright, moral rights, performers’ rights and rights in performances. Get precedent copyright assignments and licences here.
Trade marks
Practical information about trade marks, passing off, geographical indications and anti-counterfeiting. Get precedent trade mark assignments and licences here.
Patents
Practical information about patents and supplementary protection certificates. Get precedent patent assignments and licences here.
IP disputes
Get guidance on strategic and practical steps for dealing with IP disputes, including ways of trying to avoid them in the first place. Our case analysis highlights points from judgments so you can be confident at work.
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Latest IP Practice Notes
Brand protection online—strategyHaving an online presence is essential for most brands. Many advertise and sell their products online—on their own...
Anti-counterfeiting in the UKThis Practice Note summarises the main types of legal action that can be taken against the UK trade in counterfeit goods,...
Trade marks tracker—UKThis Practice Note tracks the progress of UK trade mark judgments, legislative proposals, and current UK consultations, guidance...
Anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy—strategyThe purpose of an anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy strategyMany brand owners and other IP right holders...
IP News Analysis—Brexit toolkitDateNews AnalysisBrief description of News Analysis9 September 2021Deadline for filing for UK trade mark or design...
Latest IP Precedents
Confidentiality letter—private M&A—share purchase—corporate sellerStrictly private and confidentialTo: [insert buyer name][insert buyer address]Date:...
Confidentiality letter—private M&A—asset purchase—corporate sellerStrictly private and confidentialTo: [insert buyer name][insert buyer address]Date:...
Copyright policyIntroductionThe purpose of this copyright policy is to provide guidance to employees and other personnel about copyright as a right,...
IP due diligence questionnaireIntroduction This IP due diligence questionnaire relates to the proposed purchase by [insert buyer name] (the Buyer) of...
Consultancy agreement—company and individual—pro-clientThis Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[Name of Company], a company incorporated in...
Latest IP Q&As
Featured IP content
Introduction to passing off
Introduction to passing offUnlike many other countries, the UK has no unfair competition law. Brand owners seeking to prevent competitors from...
Copyright infringement—remedies
Copyright infringement—remediesThis Practice Note covers the remedies available for copyright infringement.The remedies available in cases of...
Intellectual property international treaties and conventions
Intellectual property international treaties and conventionsIP laws are almost always national in nature. However, there are many conventions and...
Introduction to revocation of patents
Introduction to revocation of patentsPatents may be revoked, that is, taken off the register of patents, if it is decided that they are invalid in...
Joint ownership of intellectual property rights
Joint ownership of intellectual property rightsWhen parties collaborate on creative projects or research and development, complex questions arise...
Exploiting intellectual property rights
Exploiting intellectual property rightsIP rights are only valuable if they make money for the business. Even if they are used in the business, a...
Third party intellectual property rights indemnity clause—pro-supplier
1 Intellectual property rights indemnity 1.1 The Supplier shall defend the Customer against any third party claim that...
Commercial use of fonts and typefaces
Commercial use of fonts and typefacesTypefaces are a key component of a brand’s identity, using a unique typeface helps a business to distinguish...
Sub-licensing intellectual property rights
Sub-licensing intellectual property rightsAn intellectual property (IP) owner may choose to license its IP to a third party. This can be an effective...
Copyright—authorship and ownership
Copyright—authorship and ownershipThe Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) defines the author of a work as the person who created it....
Patent term, renewal and restoration
Patent term, renewal and restorationThis Practice Note explains how long a patent lasts, how it must be maintained by renewal in order to last that...
Moral rights
Moral rightsThe nature of moral rightsThe Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) confers a number of personal rights on authors that are...
Civil and criminal remedies for intellectual property infringement
Civil and criminal remedies for intellectual property infringementThis Practice Note provides an overview of the civil and criminal remedies which can...
Defences and exceptions to trade mark infringement
Defences and exceptions to trade mark infringementThe registration of a trade mark gives the owner the exclusive right to prevent others from using...
Parallel imports
Parallel importsScopeThis Practice Note explains trade mark law on parallel trade. Parallel imports, or ‘grey market’ goods, are genuine goods that...
Trade mark assignment and licensing
Trade mark assignment and licensingTrade marks can be exploited in a number of ways. They might be directly exploited by a trade mark owner (ie by...
Copyright infringement
Copyright infringementThe Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) gives the copyright owner exclusive rights in the UK to carry out...
IP rights and semiconductors
IP rights and semiconductorsBackground to semiconductorsA semiconductor is essentially any material which has electrical conductivity and can thus...
Associated legal terms
Infringement of copyright
The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) gives the copyright owner exclusive rights in the UK to carry out various acts in relation to the copyright work. Activities set out in the CDPA 1988 carried out by those other than the copyright owner, without permission, may infringe the owner's exclusive rights.
Plans
Means all the plans, drawings, models, specifications, reports, design documents and any other materials provided by the Licensor for the purposes of the Project
Sound recording
A sound recording is a copyright work which comprises of a recording of sound which may be reproduced.
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