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Cadbury's colour purple trade mark can't be split
Clarity and precision in a trade mark description are the winners in the Court of Appeal Cadbury's attempt to argue its trade mark registration for the …
Draft Withdrawal Agreement Approved by UK Cabinet - IP and Marketing Authorisation Provisions Summarised
As was widely reported yesterday evening, the Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the …
EPO publishes 2018 revision of Guidelines for Examination directed to computer-implemented inventions
The EPO has recently published the 2018 revision to its Guidelines for Examination, which are generally updated annually to take into account …
Brexit "no deal" technical notices published on Patents, Trade marks, Designs, Copyright, GIs, and Exhaustion of rights
The latest tranche of "no deal" technical notices was released yesterday afternoon by the UK Government. Amongst them are several notices …
HSF Legal Guide to Brexit - an update on provision for intellectual property rights
IP rights which are designated as applying across the EU (EU trade marks, Community plant variety rights, Community registered designs and Community …
THE TASTE OF FOODS CANNOT BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT, SAYS THE AG
On 25 July 2018, Advocate General Wathelet issued his opinion in an interesting case pending before the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) (C-310/17) …
Intellectual Property and Cyber Security issues considered in UK Government White Paper on the future UK-EU relationship
The UK Government's White Paper detailing its proposal for the future relationship between the UK and the EU (published on 12 July 2018) includes a …
Trade Secrets - added protection in force
The Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2018 (the "Regulations") came into force on 9 June 2018 and transpose Directive (EU) 2016/943 (the …
UKSC judgment in Cartier – who pays for website blocking orders?
In a blow for rights-holders, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) has today decided that ISPs should not bear the implementation costs for website blocking …
Targeting Online Risk
In our latest publication in our Future of Consumer series on issues facing the Consumer sector, we look at some of the online risks …
UK Government agrees elements of the European Commission's proposals for post-Brexit protection of EU-wide IP rights in the UK in the latest draft of the Withdrawal Agreement
In the latest draft of the Withdrawal Agreement (19 March 2018) the UK Government and European Commission negotiators appear to have agreed text …
Innovation Disruption and Technology - the legal and commercial issues for your business
Drawing on our practitioners' experience and understanding of the intellectual property and technology issues facing our clients in the fast changing …
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Italy Managing Partner, Joint Global Head of Intellectual Property, EMEA Co-Head of Life Sciences, Milan
