A case regarding “ballet flats” is likely the last time in which a UK court will sit as a Community Design Court, and the judgment was...

My final IPKat post was dedicated to one of my favourite IP topics - designs. They are forgotten and misunderstood rights which is a...

Legal costs are not always seen as the sexiest topic for a blogpost (anyone with colleagues who cycle into the office may have similar...

Just under four years ago the UK Intellectual Property Office commissioned research to address the lack of existing data on design...

Four years is a long time in politics but not a particularly long time in the land of government reports. Just under four years ago the...

Photography cases have occupied a lot of the early years of the revamped IP Enterprise Court (or IPEC) more than any other type of case. ...

Although it is a case management decision, there are so many hints in the recent decision Spin Master v PMS [2017] EWHC 1477 (Pat) that...