Waterfront has been praised by clients in the just-published 2024 international guide, The Legal 500, ‘for its capability in the litigation sphere’.
The international legal guide has ranked Waterfront as an elite firm in the intellectual property ‘trademarks, copyright and design category’.
The Legal 500 praises joint practice heads ‘pragmatic’ Matthew Harris, and ‘standout’ Piers Strickland drawing attention to their wealth of experience in handling IP contentious work.
Waterfront acts for a range of clients, from start-ups through to blue-chip clients, and advises on the full scope of intellectual property rights.
The current legal framework in the UK does not allow copying of copyright-protected material for training generative AI models, except where it is carried out with permission of the copyright owner or done in a research or study context and for purely non-commercial purposes.
This matter deals with the Claimant’s (‘TVIS’) allegation of infringement and misrepresentation in relation to its “VETSURE” trade mark by the Defendant (‘Howserv’s’) “PETSURE” trade mark, used for pet insurance. In the first instance decision, the claim was dismissed due to the marks being highly descriptive and “not…