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Joint ownership of intellectual property rightsWhen parties collaborate on creative projects or research and development, complex questions arise...
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Produced in partnership with Jessica Stretch
2nd Mar
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Exploiting intellectual property rightsIP rights are only valuable if they make money for the business. Even if they are used in the business, a...
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1st Mar
Precedents
1 Intellectual property rights indemnity 1.1 The Supplier shall defend the Customer against any third party claim that...
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1st Mar
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Commercial use of fonts and typefacesTypefaces are a key component of a brand’s identity, using a unique typeface helps a business to distinguish...
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Produced in partnership with Jessica Stretch
1st Mar
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Sub-licensing intellectual property rightsAn intellectual property (IP) owner may choose to license its IP to a third party. This can be an effective...
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Produced in partnership with Jessica Stretch
1st Mar
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Copyright—authorship and ownershipThe Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) defines the author of a work as the person who created it....
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Produced in partnership with Joshy Thomas of RPC, Ciara Cullen of RPC and Sarah Mountain of RPC
2nd Mar
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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...
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1st Mar
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Moral rightsThe nature of moral rightsThe Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) confers a number of personal rights on authors that are...
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1st Mar
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Civil and criminal remedies for intellectual property infringementThis Practice Note provides an overview of the civil and criminal remedies which can...
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Produced in partnership with Squire Patton Boggs
2nd Mar
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Defences and exceptions to trade mark infringementThe registration of a trade mark gives the owner the exclusive right to prevent others from using...
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2nd Mar
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Parallel importsScopeThis Practice Note explains trade mark law on parallel trade. Parallel imports, or ‘grey market’ goods, are genuine goods that...
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Produced in partnership with Taylor Wessing LLP
1st Mar
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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...
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1st Mar
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Copyright infringementThe Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) gives the copyright owner exclusive rights in the UK to carry out...
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Produced in partnership with Joshy Thomas of RPC, Ciara Cullen of RPC and Sarah Mountain of RPC
1st Mar
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IP rights and semiconductorsBackground to semiconductorsA semiconductor is essentially any material which has electrical conductivity and can thus...
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Produced in partnership with David Cran of RPC and Sophie Tuson of RPC
2nd Mar
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Exceptions and defences to patent infringementA ‘patent’ is a document conferring so-called monopoly rights to an inventor. A patent protects new...
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1st Mar
Precedents
1 Definitions 1.1 In this clause: Background Intellectual Property means any and all Intellectual Property...
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2nd Mar

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