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Last week the UK The Supreme Court ruled against the designer of the award-winning Trunki children's suitcase. PMS International Group's competing product, the Kiddee Case, does not infringe Magmatic's registered design rights...

Yesterday the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) published a summary of key consumer rights under the new law...

The UK Government has now selected a location just on the edge of the City of London for the EU's Unified Patents Court...

From 1 October contracts between businesses and consumers involving a supply of digital content will be affected by the Consumer Rights Act 2015...

A patent can fail for a number of reasons. Obviousness is one of the more difficult ones to call...

You buy a CD and makes a copy for use on a portable device, or for storage in a cloud service. That's allowed isn't it?...

A dispute over a parking fine has received a lot of press attention from the angle of the aggrieved motorist standing up to big business. But there are wider implications...

In the last few days before campaigning for May's election started, the UK Consumer Rights Act finally made it through the parliamentary process and became law. Most of the CRA will take effect in October 2015, although this date needs rubber-stamping by parliament...

A product-placement dispute over the popular TV show MasterChef sheds some light on how not to complete your negotiations...

Contracts often include terms that give discretion to one of the parties to make a decision affecting the other party. Does that mean that the party with the discretion can use it freely? Apparently not, according to a recent Supreme Court case...

A brand-owner generally wants to use the same brand across several countries, but there are industries where national branding is common. Pharmaceuticals is one...

The UK government has reported on its major review of the legal framework for the next stage for driverless cars...