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The EU General Court confirmed a decision of the EUIPO Board of Appeal to cancel an EUTM registration of ALCOLOCK.

Leeds City Football Club filed to register the figurative marks LCFC and it was opposed by Leicester City Football Club. The UKIPO held that a likelihood of confusion does exist and Leeds’ application was rejected in its entirety.

The EU Court has held that the term “SPINNING” is generic because it has been used to the extent that it is now a common name for a type of exercise training and the exercise equipment used in this training.

Patent filings relating to self-driving cars are currently under the microscope and the European Patent Office (EPO) has recently produced its own study, prepared in association with EUCAR (the European Council for Automotive R&D). The study follows a significant amount of recent outreach and discussion from the EPO about the patentability of technologies key to making self-driving cars a reality, most notably AI and machine learning.

The dust has started to settle following the Supreme Court decision in Warner-Lambert v Actavis [2018] UKSC 56 handed down recently. Much of the commentary has focused on the infringement aspect of the decision. In this follow-up blog, we delve deeper into the court’s take on the issue of plausibility.

Edible insects have been proposed as a clear solution to global malnutrition and food insecurity issues. As highlighted in a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report in 2013, insect eating (entophagy) has many potential benefits, both for the individual and society. Insects have a high protein content, equivalent to that of meat.