If there is one invention that not only changed the way the people lived at the time it was made, but has gone on to be used by almost the entire world ever since, then that invention is the electric… Continue Reading →
The emergence of Emma Raducanu, from nowhere to US Open champion in a few short months, lead to the inevitable opportunities for commercialisation – and the opportunity for unrelated parties to attempt to make money from the Raducanu brand. There… Continue Reading →
Sonos, the US home speaker pioneer, has recently brought a patent infringement action against Google, claiming amongst other things that Google’s own branded speakers infringe on Sonos’s technology. We take a look at how the companies got to this position,… Continue Reading →
In 2016 Italian shoemaker Aquazzura Italia SRL took steps to sue Ivanka Trump’s company, the IT Collection LLC (operating since 2010), over its “Hettie” shoe design alleging that it was too similar to its own bestselling “Wild Thing” shoe design… Continue Reading →
The American computer programmer, engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist Andy Rubin recently announced his upcoming Essential smartphone. Unfortunately before the product launch the company behind the Essential smartphone has been named in a trade mark infringement claim over the name… Continue Reading →
PayPal, the American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers recently launched a trade mark lawsuit against Pandora Internet Radio (a music streaming and automated music recommendation service) over Pandora’s new logo (launched in October… Continue Reading →
There are over 55 million active worldwide trade marks with 6 million trade mark applications filed in 2015. The volume of trade marks applications continues to rise with an average annual growth rate of 7% over the last two years. … Continue Reading →
British singer song writer Ed Sheeran was recently reported to have settled a copyright infringement claim against him in the US worth $20m (£13.8m) with no admission of guilt. The infringement claim centred over Ed Sheeran’s 2014 song called ‘Photograph’… Continue Reading →
Slimming World has a range of diet ready meals on sale in Iceland stores. Asda launched its own range of diet ready meals called Slimzone which Feature Slimming World logos (Slimming World, Extra Easy and Free) which retail at 50p… Continue Reading →
DNA Genotek (provider of biological sample collection products) sued Ancestry.com (genealogy research website) for patent infringement. The lawsuit centred on Ancestry.com’s use of technology in their saliva collecting kits which was protected by a couple of DNA Genotek’s DNA testing… Continue Reading →
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