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Copyright
Practical information about copyright, moral rights, performers’ rights and rights in performances. Get precedent copyright assignments and licences here.
Trade marks
Practical information about trade marks, passing off, geographical indications and anti-counterfeiting. Get precedent trade mark assignments and licences here.
Patents
Practical information about patents and supplementary protection certificates. Get precedent patent assignments and licences here.
IP disputes
Get guidance on strategic and practical steps for dealing with IP disputes, including ways of trying to avoid them in the first place. Our case analysis highlights points from judgments so you can be confident at work.
Latest IP News
The Intellectual Property Office has amended the Trade Marks (International Registration) Order 2008 to allow partial replacement of UK trade marks...
The Society of Authors has announced that it joined the Creative Rights in AI Coalition, a coalition of rights holders, including publishers, authors,...
IP analysis: For those planning on submitting a Hague design registration any time soon, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has...
IP analysis: The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal by Dairy UK Ltd and reinstated a declaration made by the UK Intellectual Property Office that Oatly...
This week's edition of IP weekly highlights includes: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content from the world of IP. These...
Latest IP Practice Notes
Disclosure in intellectual property disputesThis Practice Note summarises the rules governing disclosure in IP disputes. It focuses on the disclosure...
Payment of subcontractors in public sector contractsBoilerplate provisions in public sector contractsThis Practice Note looks at payment of...
Artificial intelligence (AI) resource kitThis resource kit contains a list of the key practical guidance available across Lexis+® UK that deals with...
Brexit timelineOn 23 June 2016, the UK held a referendum on its membership of the EU, with a majority voting in favour of the UK leaving the EU. On 29...
Trade mark infringement and interim injunctionsThis Practice Note explores the use of interim relief in trade mark proceedings.Owing to the nature of...
Latest IP Precedents
Letter of claim—database right infringementLetter of claim [Alleged infringer’s name and address][Date]Dear [insert organisation name][Copyright and]...
Template agreement—mutualThis Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[insert name of Party A][ of OR a company incorporated in [England and Wales] under...
Letter of claim—peer-to-peer copyright infringementLetter of claim[Alleged infringer’s name and address][Date]Dear [insert organisation name]Copyright...
Briefing for directors—general duties under the Companies Act 2006Every director of a company owes a number of duties to the company they are...
Database sale agreement—including provisions for personal data—pro-assigneeThis Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[insert name] [of OR a...
Latest IP Q&As
Featured IP content
Introduction to passing off
Introduction to passing offUnlike many other countries, the UK has no unfair competition law. Brand owners seeking to prevent competitors from...
Copyright infringement—remedies
Copyright infringement—remediesThis Practice Note covers the remedies available for copyright infringement.The remedies available in cases of...
Intellectual property international treaties and conventions
Intellectual property international treaties and conventionsIP laws are almost always national in nature. However, there are many conventions and...
Introduction to revocation of patents
Introduction to revocation of patentsPatents may be revoked, that is, taken off the register of patents, if it is decided that they are invalid in...
Joint ownership of intellectual property rights
Joint ownership of intellectual property rightsWhen parties collaborate on creative projects or research and development, complex questions arise...
Exploiting intellectual property rights
Exploiting intellectual property rightsIP rights are only valuable if they make money for the business. Even if they are used in the business, a...
Third party intellectual property rights indemnity clause—pro-supplier
1 Intellectual property rights indemnity 1.1 The Supplier shall defend the Customer against any third party claim that...
Commercial use of fonts and typefaces
Commercial use of fonts and typefacesTypefaces are a key component of a brand’s identity, using a unique typeface helps a business to distinguish...
Sub-licensing intellectual property rights
Sub-licensing intellectual property rightsAn intellectual property (IP) owner may choose to license its IP to a third party. This can be an effective...
Copyright—authorship and ownership
Copyright—authorship and ownershipThe Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) defines the author of a work as the person who created it....
Patent term, renewal and restoration
Patent term, renewal and restorationThis Practice Note explains how long a patent lasts, how it must be maintained by renewal in order to last that...
Moral rights
Moral rightsThe nature of moral rightsThe Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) confers a number of personal rights on authors that are...
Civil and criminal remedies for intellectual property infringement
Civil and criminal remedies for intellectual property infringementThis Practice Note provides an overview of the civil and criminal remedies which can...
Defences and exceptions to trade mark infringement
Defences and exceptions to trade mark infringementThe registration of a trade mark gives the owner the exclusive right to prevent others from using...
Parallel imports
Parallel importsScopeThis Practice Note explains trade mark law on parallel trade. Parallel imports, or ‘grey market’ goods, are genuine goods that...
Trade mark assignment and licensing
Trade mark assignment and licensingTrade marks can be exploited in a number of ways. They might be directly exploited by a trade mark owner (ie by...
Copyright infringement
Copyright infringementThe Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) gives the copyright owner exclusive rights in the UK to carry out...
IP rights and semiconductors
IP rights and semiconductorsBackground to semiconductorsA semiconductor is essentially any material which has electrical conductivity and can thus...
Associated legal terms
Artistic works
An original artistic work attracts copyright and such works means a graphic work, photograph, sculpture, collage, a work of architecture and a work of artistic craftsmanship.
Author
The author of a copyright work is the person who creates it. The author is, unless they are employed, the first owner of the work.
Priority date of patent
The priority date is the date upon which the novelty and inventive step of a patent is judged.
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