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In a recent case, the General Court upheld the Board of Appeal’s decision, and invalidated one of Adidas’ three stripe EU trade mark registrations. Whilst Adidas did not appeal the Board of Appeal’s finding on lack of inherent distinctiveness, the...

This webinar will examine some of the brand challenges faced by the fashion sector, and offer insight into how businesses can optimise protection and enforcement strategies for their intellectual property.

We catch up with Jonathan Midgley for his expert opinion on patents surrounding the new technologies used in financial services and related areas, such as banking and insurance.

This webinar provides an analysis of national government’s powers to make use of patented inventions during the present pandemic.  Awareness of these provisions will be essential for those having intellectual property covering health-related...

Last Friday, the German Federal Constitutional Court issued its long-awaited decision on the validity of the ratification of the UPC by Germany. In their decision, the court rejected the ratification of the UPC because the necessary majority of...

At Cleveland Scott York, we’ve been closely monitoring and evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on our people, our clients and our business operations.

In today’s UK Budget the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced the largest ever increase in Research and Development funding. £22 billion of public money will be invested in R&D, in addition to existing private investment.

In most systems, when a legal deadline falls at the weekend or on some other non-working day it is automatically extended to the next working day.

Following the signing off of the Withdrawal Agreement by the European Union Parliament on 29 January 2020, the United Kingdom will no longer be a member of the European Union (EU) with effect from 11pm on 31 January 2020.