September 17, 2015

Another day another dollop of delectable IP goodness, it’s today’s Interesting IP: A man who claims he invented GI Joe is suing Hasbro to get the rights to the figure back – http://www.thewrap.com/g-i-joe-inventor-sues-to-break-hasbros-kung-fu-grip-on-toys-copyright/ Rockstar Games were NOT happy with the BBC Film based on their game Grand Theft Auto and the company – The filed Trade

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September 16, 2015

Another day, another 387 new Trade Mark Applications filed in the European Office (OHIM) for Community Trade Marks. I’ve already posted my favourite one earlier in a separate blog post HERE but there’s some other interesting applications filed yesterday also! Paddy’s Two Foot Tackle – THIS I’m very interested in. When you’re searching a European

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September 16, 2015

Every day I check the OHIM database to see what Trade Marks were filed the day previous. It averages about 380 (there was 387 yesterday) and it’s a great way of getting ahead of some brands who (rightly) have sought protection in advance of rolling our certain products or services. Every day there’s a few

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September 16, 2015

There’s been a case rumbling along for a while now involving Nestle and Cadbury which (and I’m over simplifying massively here) the shape of Kit Kat bars was in issue. The history of the case and the dispute is infinitely more complicated than that, and worthy of a separate blog post, but for now Check

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September 16, 2015

I’m not much of a Whiskey drinker, so I’m not sure if ‘Four Roses’ is common in Ireland already, or whether any of you have ever heard of it (I hadn’t). But while I don’t drink whiskey unless it’s very late and we’re out of everything else, I do trawl the Trade Mark Section of

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