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Our services are centred around intellectual property that can be registered. We protect innovation, design, and branding across all sectors of industry, and at all stages in the supply chain.
For each IP right we offer services covering strategic advice, pre-registration searches, registrations and renewals, oppositions and dispute resolution. We handle work throughout the world, working with local colleagues in over 100 countries.
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Our attorneys specialise in one or more sectors of industry, which enables them to provide quality advice with a commercial focus.
Our patent specialists have detailed understanding of the background technology, which ensures that your patent applications are prepared with the correct scope, reducing the likelihood of challenges from third parties and objections from the patent office.
They also advise whether other forms of protection would be more appropriate. Our brand specialists work with brand managers for leading brands and their advice is commercially focussed making sure that you get the best value from your budget.
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The novelty of the terms “NFTs” and “the Metaverse” (in the context of trade marks) and the speed at which they are appearing in trade mark applications has required IP Offices to adapt their classification practice to ensure that there is guidance for applicants on how and where such terms are correctly classified.
The Eurovision fans amongst the R&G team were happy to learn yesterday that next years’ competition is to be hosted here in the UK. Eurovision has provided us with hours (many, many, hours) of entertainment over the years, and yesterday’s announcement got us wondering about how the brand is protected and enforced around the world.
The All England Lawn Tennis Club (the “Club”) has owned multiple registered trade marks for the famous Wimbledon name and other prominent signs for some time. However, the dark green and purple colourway – which has been associated with the Wimbledon tennis tournament for over a Century – has only been protected as a registered trade mark in the UK since 2016.
We are pleased to introduce our new newsletter, Digital Health: IP at the interface of healthcare and digital technology.
Colours and colour combinations play an important role in branding. In a crowded sector colours have the capacity to function as a powerful visual key, enabling consumers to easily distinguish between different products and brands. Trade mark rights granted for specific colours, or combinations of colours, are, therefore, powerful IP rights. The uncertainty surrounding how similar a colour must be to infringe a colour mark registration works in the favour of the owners of colour trade mark registrations – in extreme cases a colour mark registration may deter competitors from using all shades of that colour on/in relation to the same goods/services. Little surprise then that for some trade mark owners securing registered rights in colour marks has become a key strategic objective.
OFF-WHITE has won its appeal at the General Court to register the OFF-WHITE black and white logo trade mark in the EU following the decision of the EUIPO that the mark is inherently descriptive and non-distinctive.
Hot off their memorable 2-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League Final this summer, Liverpool FC thought it wise to bolster their brand protection to stop others from also benefiting from their success by selling imitation products. And rightly so, but it seems Liverpool FC might have been a little too ambitious in what they thought they could protect as their ‘brand’.
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