What IP issues should you consider when buying a company? How about when you are the one selling your company? What even is a strong patent portfolio? We speak with two experts who help to answer IP related queries. What are important compliance issues when devising a patent portfolio? Based on our experience the […]
Following up on the Kit Kat trademark court ruling last week, Colin Bell, partner and head of intellectual property at law firm Brabners, provides expert commentary. This is a significant decision by the CJEU because of the high bar it sets for non-traditional trade-marks, such as shapes. If the court is saying that for a […]
China is on course to overtake the US as the world’s leading source of foreign trademark applications by 2020 according to new research released by CompuMark, the industry leader in trademark research and protection solutions. Trademark-filing trends are a powerful indicator of economic activity. In the past two years alone, the number of Chinese trademark […]
Elon Musk, CEO and Founder of Tesla, is being accused of infringing on copyright and is happy to admit this is the case. According to reports, promotional material for Tesla used the same images of a unicorn farting into a pipe in order to power a car; material originally drawn by Colorado potter Tom Edwards. […]
Bernd Fabry has been a lecturer in IP management at the Otto Beisheim Business School of Management (WHU Vallendar) for many years and is the author of numerous articles and books in the field of intellectual property law. As an expert in the field, he talks about the progression of patenting and how China has […]
The patent work and adviser work has changed in the last five years. Cases are more complex, with less time to resolve them. Nils Schmid, Partner at Boehmert & Boehmert says: “I think that being a partner at a law firm is no longer a one-man show. It is very important that the team under you […]
Ursula Bartel is passionate about helping clients out of risky situations and fighting for justice in the interest of her clients. “It is of special importance for me to have a direct and continuing connection with my clients to provide immediate advice and support. I strive for advising my clients on a very high level […]
Music is often a determined sequence of chords and rhythms, words and melodies, but sometimes a song has an ‘essence’; this is according to The Script’s lawyer, and plaintiff against James Arthur, Richard Busch. Below Robert Lundie Smith, Partner at EIP Legal, talks Lawyer Monthly through a complex history of subconscious copying and IP infringement […]
With one of the best professional teams in Colombia, Carolina Vera and her team are prepared to offer their utmost best to always achieve the greatest for their clients. And so, Lawyer Monthly thought it was vital to get in touch with Carolina, to find out her secrets to how she has shaped the legal […]
This week Hasbro, the internationally renown toy company, has been granted trademark rights to the very particular smell of Play-Doh, describing the smell as a “sweet, slightly musky, vanilla fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted, wheat-based dough.” The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Hasbro a […]
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