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An audit clause is often found in an intellectual property licensing agreement to provide a licensor with protection...

The UK government's announcement last week of the results of its competition for driverless car testing is an exciting development. We expect an announcement of the results of a review of the regulatory regime to follow shortly...

We commented last year on the re-launch of the Patents County Court as the the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, or IPEC. The restyled court for dealing with lower value IP disputes efficiently and cheaply has proved popular...

It is unusual for a patent infringement case to be decided without a full trial. A judge will normally want to hear evidence from experts to understand what people working in the relevant field would have known at the time when the patent was first filed...

Well-known optical retailer Specsavers uses a logo composed of green overlapping ellipses overlaid with its name. Specsavers had registered as a Community trade mark a black "wordless" version of the linked ellipses...

In our previous blog on this subject, we discussed the wider context in which the review of laws affecting driverless cars should take place. Within that context, there will need to be a really clear regime for determining legal responsibility for what happens to the different classes of autonomous vehicle...

In the first to be decided of cases brought in the UK, Germany, France and the US, the English court has decided that a pair of Philips patents relating to a handheld pointing device are valid and infringed by Nintendo's Wii system...

The Court of Appeal has recently handed down judgements in Société des Produits Nestlé SA v Cadbury UK Limited and JW Spear & Sons Limited, Mattel Inc & Mattel UK Limited v Zynga Inc...

The High Court has found that liquidators under a voluntary liquidation are not data controllers for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 ("DPA" or "Act") and so are not personally responsible for compliance with the Act...

It's been dubbed by the media as "Cliff Richard's Law", and now he and his fellow musicians are about to see the change to copyright duration in sound recordings that they pushed for finally coming into force...

The semi-nomadic people of Kenya and north Tanzania, the Maasai, have had their iconic cultural brand exploited by companies across the world, for products ranging from cars, to shoes and even wine...

Yesterday saw the formal appointment of another patents judge to the Court of Appeal.  The Lord Chief Justice's Court was packed with other judges, members of the Bar, Solicitors and Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys welcoming Sir Christopher Floyd's elevation to the Court...