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Is Your Trade Mark At Risk?

The “use it or lose it” principle applies to trademarks in all countries.

The rationale behind the principle is to make names available for others to secure after five years of registration unless the owners of those registrations are still using th...

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An Expensive Lesson in Trademark Law

There are lessons from the recent BBC report about a chicken shop owner in Manchester who lost a trademark dispute against Tesla. 

Mr Ali trademarked the name ‘Tesla Chicken & Pizza’ in 2020. So in 2021 the IPO notified him that Tesla was trying to ...

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