Decisions of the GC, trade mark updates, designs and copyright news for the month of September 2014, as reported to the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA).

Decisions of the GC, trade mark updates, designs and copyright news for the month of August, as reported to the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA).

On 10 June 2014 the Irish Government announced it will be the first country in the European Union to introduce plain packaging for tobacco products and published draft legislation which requires that brand names ...

Bird & Bird has been ranked in 15 jurisdictions in the newly-launched IAM Patent Litigation 1000: The World's Leading Patent Litigators (Europe & Asia).

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It is 17 months since Australia became the first country in the world to standardise packaging for tobacco products, and other countries from New Zealand to the UK are watching the implementation, and legal ...

This month we report on the CJ's decision on the interpretation of "due cause" in Leidseplein Beheer v Red Bull and its guidance on the provision of hyperlinks to online content in Nils Svensson v Retriever.

This month we report on the CJ's guidance on the interpretation of the Copyright Directive in relation to sales of devices for unlocking games consoles in Nintendo v PC Box. We also report on the decision of the ...

This month we report on the CJ's decision on infringement of database rights by dedicated meta search engines in Innoweb v Wegener.