Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Laws

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In 2023 Iconix Luxembourg Holdings SARL (Iconix) filed a trade mark infringement claim against Dream Pairs Europe Inc (Dream Pairs)...

The long-running dispute between the marks VETSURE and PETSURE appears to have now come to an end, with the Supreme Court having recently refused a request for permission...

Last week, Technia UK released the season finale of its space-focused podcast, Lift Off – How to Protect Your IP in LEO. In this episode, Principal Phil Merchant joins Chris Hambley...

The concept of self-conducted diagnostic tests, administered by patients in their own home, would likely have been thought completely preposterous 100 years ago – conjuring-up images of an array of test-tubes, flasks and Bunsen burners.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled yesterday in an important case (C-125/10, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt), relating to Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs).

On 2 November 2011, the UK Supreme Court (formerly the House of Lords) handed down its decision in Human Genome Sciences Inc (HGS) v Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly), which was primarily concerned with the issue of industrial applicability of claimed biological material.

IBM UK ("IBM") successfully enforced the terms of a mainframe license against the defendants who had created a competing software product.

In a significant move to address the tension between copyright and generative artificial intelligence (AI), the UK's Copyright Licensing Agency...

The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), a United Kingdom (UK) not-for-profit, has announced that it is developing a Generative AI (GenAI) Training Licence, and is hoping to publish the licence in the third quarter of 2025.