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Law360: The Court of Appeal has ruled that there is nothing about a company's AI invention that differentiates it from a typical computer programme...
IP analysis: This case is relevant to defending UK-cloned IP rights created on IP completion day (31 December 2020). The defendant previously...
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has published statutory guidance on Tribunal Practice Notice 1/2024: Restricting specifications of applications...
This week's edition of IP weekly highlights includes: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content from the world of IP. These...
IP analysis: Robyn Trigg, Senior Knowledge Lawyer, Osborne Clarke LLP, considers how the new UK government will aim to find the balance between AI...
Trade in services under the UK-EU TCA—an overviewThis Practice Note provides an overview of the main aspects of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation...
Designs tracker—UKThis tracker is intended to be used to track the progress of UK design judgments, legislative proposals and current UK...
Exclusion and limitation of liabilityThis Practice Note considers exclusion and limitation of liability in business-to-business (B2B) contracts. It...
DeepfakesThis Practice Note considers the following legal issues, technical information and applications of deepfakes:•What is a deepfake?•How...
Sub-licensing intellectual property rightsAn IP owner may choose to license its IP to a third party. This can be an effective route to generating...
Confidentiality agreement—corporate joint ventureThis Agreement is made on [insert day and month] 20[insert year]Parties1[Insert name of first...
Report to notify anti-counterfeiting matters to a client or to the businessThis is a Precedent report to notify anti-counterfeiting matters to a...
Confidentiality letter—know-how[insert address of sender]Our ref: [insert reference]Your ref: [insert reference][Insert address of recipient]Date:...
Trade mark coexistence agreementThis Agreement is made on [insert date] (the Commencement Date)Parties1[insert name], [of OR a company incorporated in...
Briefing for directors—general duties under the Companies Act 2006Every director of a company owes a number of duties to the company they are...
Introduction to passing offUnlike many other countries, the UK has no unfair competition law. Brand owners seeking to prevent competitors from...
Copyright infringement—remediesThis Practice Note covers the remedies available for copyright infringement.The remedies available in cases of...
Intellectual property international treaties and conventionsIP laws are almost always national in nature. However, there are many conventions and...
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 rightsWhen parties collaborate on creative projects or research and development, complex questions arise...
Exploiting intellectual property rightsIP rights are only valuable if they make money for the business. Even if they are used in the business, a...
1 Intellectual property rights indemnity 1.1 The Supplier shall defend the Customer against any third party claim that...
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 rightsAn intellectual property (IP) owner may choose to license its IP to a third party. This can be an effective...
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 restorationThis Practice Note explains how long a patent lasts, how it must be maintained by renewal in order to last that...
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 infringementThis Practice Note provides an overview of the civil and criminal remedies which can...
Defences and exceptions to trade mark infringementThe registration of a trade mark gives the owner the exclusive right to prevent others from using...
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 licensingTrade marks can be exploited in a number of ways. They might be directly exploited by a trade mark owner (ie by...
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 semiconductorsBackground to semiconductorsA semiconductor is essentially any material which has electrical conductivity and can thus...
The (principal) director of a film is one of the two original owners of the copyright in the film. The other owner being the producer.
Means all the plans, drawings, models, specifications, reports, design documents and any other materials provided by the Licensor for the purposes of the Project
A person is only entitled to copyright protection (or protection as a performer) where they qualify.