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Customs and intellectual property rights: new EU regulation not far off from implementation

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union
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  • February 8 2013

EU customs authorities are responsible for controlling and detaining those goods suspected of infringing certain intellectual property rights ("IPR"

“My face is my career!” Protect your image rights in Guernsey

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • Guernsey
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  • February 4 2013

On 3 December 2012 Guernsey's new image rights legislation, The Image Rights (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Ordinance, 2012 ("IRO"), came into force creating

Scottish courts boost IP case management powers

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 6 2012

The Rules of the Court of Session contain tailored rules for specific types of action

Intellectual property news round-up August 2012

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 28 2012

In this round-up of recent IP law news, we report on newly published guidance on the practical use of the Patent Box, the continuing battle between Samsung and Apple, unlawful advertising at the Olympics and the use of domain name opticalexpressruinedmylife.co.uk

Sharing knowledge and expertise - a memorandum of understanding between the Intellectual Property Office and the Office of Fair Trading

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 28 2012

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) published on 12 July 2012

An Apple (dispute) a day...

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • China, USA
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  • July 6 2012

A long running dispute in China over the rights to the ‘iPad’ name between Apple and Proview has settled, with Apple agreeing to pay £38 million to the Chinese firm

Games (and songs) without frontiers

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 16 2012

The Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”) was a United States bill introduced to extend the reach of U.S. law to combat online trafficking of intellectual property and counterfeit goods outside U.S. jurisdiction

Privilege in IP litigation

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • January 20 2011

A recent spate of cases before the UK and European Courts re-considering the scope of privilege are of interest to businesses with valuable IP rights

The High Court allows BT and Talk Talk to have their say on the Digitial Economy Act 2010

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 20 2011

The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has extended the deadline for written submissions to its inquiry into the protection of intellectual property rights online until 23 March 2011 following the decision of the High Court to allow BT and Talk Talk to apply for judicial review of certain parts of the Digital Economy Act 2010 (the Act

The Man in the White Suit was “too easy to find”, Morgan J decides

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 18 2010

A recent Chancery Division case has held that the identity of popular television character "The Stig" was too easy to find and as such refused to grant an interim injunction to prevent the publication of an autobiography by Ben Collins entitled "The Man in the White Suit" which threatened to reveal that Ben Collins was, in fact, The Stig