This month, the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) ruled that the claimant’s copyright in photographs contained in its training manual were infringed, but that there was no infringement in relation to “text box notes” or “physical restraint techniques” (see here for the full judgment). Copyright subsists in (amongst other things)…
Many intellectual property licences contain “audit” or “inspection” clauses which permit the licensor (usually the intellectual property owner) a right to check that the licensee has complied with any restrictions in the licence. Often, these clauses will never be used. However, where they are used they will become…
Television formats are big business worldwide. However, there is no such thing as a “format right” under English law. While it no doubts suits the TV format industry to have us believe otherwise, TV formats are vulnerable, in legal terms, to being “copied”. Despite this fact, there is…
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) confirmed earlier this year that a 3-D representation of a shop layout can, in principle, be registered as a trade mark. If you are a retailer or an interior designer or brand manager working with retail you should be…