October 13, 2015

I started writing this blog seven weeks ago, and today marked a big milestone for me, my 1,000th unique visitor. Now, in the greater scheme of things that’s a very small number of visitors to a website. BUT this is a blog about law. I’m hoping to give it as broad an appeal as I

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October 8, 2015

Another day, another load of busy beavers in Europe accepting Trade Mark Filings and applications. Let’s start with something close to home, as this was an Irish application for phone repair service ‘Smashlab’ – I just like seeing Irish companies applying at the European level: This is an application from ‘King.com’ the crowd that brought

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October 7, 2015

Update: *SPOILER ALERT* It’s the Keebler Elf (apparently) who is some lad who makes Cookies in the US and whose brand was bought by Kellogg a few years ago?? Thanks to the kind people at Broadsheet for solving the mystery. I’ve obviously led a very sheltered life to have never heard of these…. So Kellogg

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