Match Group successfully challenged the Muslim dating app, Muzmatch’s, trade mark registrations in the EU and the U.K. And in the latest development of the dispute the High Court ruled that Muzmatch has unfairly benefited from Ma

Let’s begin by considering the terminology as it’s all too common when it comes to brands to find people have different meanings in mind. I’ll then explain the role of trademarks and why and how to be strategic with them.

It is generally accepted that what makes an asset valuable, whether it is a digital or physical one, or any type of intellectual property such as a patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright or design, is based on answers to que

The internet has radically changed the rules for most industries, be it news, music, PR, retail or any other you may care to think about. That’s not surprising given the rapid pace of technological development the internet has spa

Back in 2011 when I began writing my book Legally Branded I realised that despite spending years focused on brand protection, I didn’t really know what the word ‘brand’ meant and what was involved to create one.

Having joined BN

Building a strong brand means starting with a clear vision of where you want your brand to go. This was the key takeaway when Shireen Smith invited Daniel Priestley, owner of Dent and author of Oversubscribed: How To Get Peopl...

The 7 Costly Mistakes People Make When Turning their Big Idea into a Business, or when Branding or Rebranding Anything

The name is a key part of your brand identity. It’s possibly the most important decision you will ever mak

In my post last week, I mentioned that Intellectual Property (IP) has an image problem and might need a rebrand.

There are lots of reasons I think IP has an image problem. For example, a marketer friend once advised me to rem

As trademarks give their owners a monopoly right to identify their products or services an important caveat about them is that they must be distinctive.

A generic identifier such as the colour yellow for Cheerios or a name t

The difficulty with colour as a brand identifier is that there is no interim legal protection available to rely on as you build up recognition. You may remember from a previous blog post that Coca Cola had design protection of

Most people assume intellectual property is primarily a distress purchase. This is one of the many misconceptions about IP that I’ve noticed since starting my business in 2004.

It frustrates me that people turn to me when they’re