Katharine Stephens sets the decision in Actavis in context and discusses its effect on subsequent cases

Our Q&A on patent Law in the UK.

This month we report on the Supreme Court's decision in Cartier International AG & Ots v British Telecommunications Plc & Anr concerning costs of website blocking orders.

Katharine Stephens and Toby Bond of Bird & Bird LLP examine the intellectual property issues that arise when developing and using artificial intelligence systems.

This month we report on Advocate-General Szpunar's Opinion on whether the shape exclusion in Article 3(1)(e)(iii) is applicable to non-three dimensional properties such as colour and shape (Christian Louboutin v ...

In this month's CIPA journal, we report on the decision in Frank Industries v Nike Retail concerning Nike's use of the LDNR sign.

In this month's report, we analyse the questions referred to the CJ by the High Court in Sky v Skykick. We also report on the unsuccessful trade mark opposition by Starbucks against a mark that allegedly infringed ...

This month we report on whether the mark BIRLEA was infringed by the advertising and sale of beds on Amazon (Birlea Furniture Ltd & Anr v Platinum Enterprise (UK) Ltd). We also report on the issues of validity and ...

Bird & Bird’s Toby Bond spoke at the AI.Tech World conference held at Olympia, London on 29 November 2017, together with speakers from Dixons Carphone and RainBird Technologies in a panel session exploring what ...