Can you use your trade marks in your future business ventures? Can you still be liable for copyright infringement if you add a disclaimer to your online content? We’re separating legal fact from fiction. 1. “I’ve registered my trade mark …
Moore Know How: Holy Bat! Football Clubs, Super Heroes & Trade Mark Oppositions
One of Spain’s highest profile football clubs has found itself at the centre of a trade mark dispute regarding their attempt to register its bat emblem as a Community Trade Mark (CTM). Valencia Football Club (Valencia) has used a representation …
Apple Store Layout Wins Trade Mark Proctection
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that it is possible to register the layout of a store as a trade mark provided that it is sufficiently distinct. In 2010 Apple managed to trade mark a 3D representation from …
Intellectual Property Basics
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY BASICS Intellectual Property (IP) is the umbrella term used to describe a range of legal rights that attach to certain kinds of information, know how and ideas, and in particular, to the way that they are expressed and …