As it’s becoming more and more important to be customer focused we are aiming to better understand what people and potential clients need. So, we’ve created a Survey Monkey questionnaire around the subject of my...
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In a past blog post, we reported an earlier decision regarding trademark infringement, M&S and Interflora. Here we discuss last week’s Court of Appeal decision to retry the dispute between M&S and...
September 26, 2009
Brevity might be the soul of wit, but it’s also the heart of social networking phenomenon Twitter.
Twitter is built around the concept of micro-blogging, that is allowing its members to post just about anything as long the...
August 28, 2009
Azrights has now formally abandoned hourly rate charging. In future hourly rate charging for legal services will only apply in litigation cases where court rules make it difficult to avoid charging by the hour.
In all other cases...
June 7, 2010
If you are starting up in business, getting the right legal help can be a key to success – especially if you are a creative business. An effective Intellectual Property strategy to properly structure your IP rights from...
There are 5 crucial points to know about trademarks that might change your entire approach to branding and trademark registration. I’ll start by answering the question what is a trademark.
What is a Trademark?
Trademarks...
GDPR is all about introducing greater transparency, increased accountability and enhanced privacy rights for all of us. For example, we can manage our permissions to tech platforms as a result of being notified about the data...
October 18, 2010
An interactive workshop to be delivered by Shireen Smith, Solicitor at Azrights. Venue: British Library (follow link)
Whether you’re starting out in business, or creating new products and services for your existing business, you’ll want to make sure you’re doing things right, that your actions will set you up for success.
Unless...
3D trademarks are notoriously difficult to register, as Nestlé found out last week just short of a few broken fingers. Earlier this summer we wrote about the Advocat-General’s (AG) opinion of the European court...
The latest in Nestlé’s attempts to trademark its iconic four-finger chocolate is at odds with EU Law.
Back in 2012 we reported in our blog Can you trademark a colour? that Cadbury had managed to secure a...
3D printing is a technological advance that has been getting a lot of press recently due to the sense of excitement about the possibilities it might hold. The implications of this advance are being speculated as huge, with the...