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Counterfeit issues can spike in the summer months. Protect your brand assets this season with these anti-counterfeiting and online brand protection strategies.

Discover when, how and where to start when protecting a design via the European and international design registration systems with our practical guide.

Reinforce your business's foundation by boosting your intellectual property (IP) awareness and knowledge. Join us to explore the fundamentals of IP law in a comprehensive and practical webinar.

A registered mark offers defensive and offensive possibilities, but how and where should you start? Discover expert trademark enforcement strategies.

As marks that are contrary to public order are not eligible for registration in the EU, registrants must also consider trademark ethics.

A first filing of a patent creates a 12-month priority period for protection to be sought in other territories, but which protection route should you choose?

The sessions scheduled at the 2024 INTA Annual Meeting remind us how technology is increasingly so important for trademark practice, as Luke Portnow explains.

As the first European court issues its ruling in an AI and copyright dispute, we look at the latest development in this fast-evolving field of IP law.

Achieving sufficiency of description can be challenging for patent applications for AI inventions. What can we learn from the EPO Guidelines?

As demand for sustainable products has grown, so has the number of brands making green claims, but who is eligible to register ‘green trademarks’?

You can protect your brand assets using national, regional and/or international trademark filing systems. We outline the differences.

In a recent UK trademark decision, the Supreme Court considered what constitutes infringing use on global online marketplaces. Discover what it means for brand owners.

Is posting a mark merely communication, or does it constitute actual evidence of use? We examine a recent EU ruling on trademarks and social media.

Undertaking a regular trademark audit ensures your brand portfolio remains relevant and robust in a rapidly changing market. Find out why and where to start.

IP education: Get back to basics with our guide to the most important areas of intellectual property law.

In a trademark reputation decision, the car giant Tesla successfully invalidated a UK trademark for TESLA CHICKEN & PIZZA held by a small fast food shop.

Last year was a record year for the UDRP complaint procedure. Discover how the procedure works and when to use it.

The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has published its comprehensive annual review of online counterfeiting on marketplaces, with sites ranked in order of ‘notorious counterfeiting and pir...

As excitement builds for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we summarise the IP dos and don’ts of the Olympics from protected trademarks to ambush marketing.

Following the end of the Brexit Transition Period, the UK courts have no longer been bound by new EU case law, as can be evidence in a recent ruling on trademark acquiescence.