NIPC Law

Portobello Road, Notting Hill By Papertree at English Wikipedia - Originally from en. Wikipedia; description page is/was here. Original uploader was Papertree at en. wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3073800   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Master Kaye sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) C ourtenay-Smith and another v The Notting Hill Shopping Bag Company Limited and others    [2025] EWHC 1793 (IPEC) (18 July 2025) This was a claim for copyright and trade mark infringement and passing off and a counterclaim for revocation and invalidation of the second claimant's trade mark.  The action and counterclaim came on for trial before Master Kaye  sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court on 7 and 8 April 2025.   The learned master handed down her judgment in  C ourtenay-Smith and another v The Notting Hill Shopping Bag Company Limited and others    [2025] EWHC 1793 on 18 July 202...

Scotland's position in the British Isles, Europe and the World Source Wikipedia In "What would an independent Scottish government do about Intellectual Property?"  I discussed what the Scottish government said it would do about intellectual property if Scotland seceded from the United Kingdom. Today I will consider what the white paper did not say. The Current Situation Scotland like the rest of the UK protects intellectual assets (brands, designs, technology and works of art and literature) by a bundle of laws some of which derive from statute such as patents, copyrights and trade marks, some from European Union regulations such as Community designs and trade marks, and some such as confidentiality and passing off from common law. Some of those rights have to be registered with the Intellectual Property Office in Newport, others with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market ( "OHIM ) and European patents wit...