Following a UK Patents Court ruling in July last year (subsequently upheld by the UK Court of Appeal) wherein it was held that certain Samsung tablets do not infringe Apple’s Registered Community Design (RCD) No. 000181607-0001, the EU designs registry known by its official title of “Office of Harmonisation in the Internal Market” (OHIM) has [...]
It was good to see one of our valued clients, Professor Austin Darragh, featured in the Business section of the Sunday Independent newspaper. Professor Darragh and Dr JJ Leahy have developed a new groundbreaking technology which should result in larger and healthier crops. The feature can be found below: http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/wave-goodbye-to-global-warming-gm-and-pesticides-29525621.html
A trade mark can become a generic term if it is not used properly. Examples of well known generic terms which were originally trade marks are “escalator” and “aspirin”. “Hoover” is a good example of a trade mark which very nearly became a generic term. Collins English Dictionary contains conflicting references in the sense that [...]
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In 2011 the pop star Rihanna had to curtail a photoshoot on a farm in Northern Ireland when the owner of the farm, Alan Graham, wasn't impressed by her "inappropriate state of undress" and ordered her off the farm and to become "acquainted with God". Well we don't know whether Rihanna heeded the farmers advice [...]
British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSBG) and Microsoft have settled the trade mark infringement action which Sky brought against Microsoft in an English Court. As a result Microsoft will have to find a new name for its cloud storage service SkyDrive. BSBG has, however, agreed to allow Microsoft to continue using the name for a [...]