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TM, Design & Brand

Trade Marks & Brand Identity Newsletter - Apr 2010

Features:

Adwords Decision - is Google off the hook?
No (more) HALF MEASURES for slogans
Congratulations to Michael Conway!

Trade Marks & Brand Identity Newsletter - Jan 2010

Features:

- Haseltine Lake welcomes new IP & Media Solicitor
- Electronic registration certificates for CTMs
- The PAGO decision - out of juice?
- Haseltine Lake's opening of branch office in The Netherlands

Trade Marks & Brand Identity Newsletter - Oct 2009

Features:

Community Trade Mark Filing Service-Beware
Oiling The Wheels Of Commerce: It's Worth Registering Labels
Reputation, Reputation, Reputation: As Relevant As Ever
UKIPO Fee Changes

Trade Marks & Brand Identity Newsletter - Oct 2008

Features:

UK: opposition term reduced to 2 months
Adwords
UK: objecting to company names
Cautionary sales: using your brands abroad
Beware...domain names

Trade Marks & Brand Identity July 08 - Jul 2008

Features:

Bubble Trouble?

Trade Marks & Brand Identity - Mar 2008

Features:

Domain Names Warning
Official searches become optional for Community Trade Mark applicants

Trade Marks & Brand Identity - Feb 2008

Features:

UK trade mark applications: new fast-track examination
- What does this mean?
- What will this cost?
- Why choose the fast-track?

Trade Mark Briefing Note - UK and Europe: Look to your Trade Mark Rights - Sep 2007

Features:

Brief outline of UK opposition procedure
What Haseltine Lake will do
Recommendations to trade mark owners

Design Team Briefing Note on Unregistered Design Right - Jul 2005

Features:

Dyson v. Qualtex - design right decision in the High Court
Originality
Must fit and must match
Commonplace
Surface decoration
Duration
Acquiescence

Trade Mark Team Newsletter - Jun 2005

Features:

Slogans
Trade marks with reputation
Italian names
Registrability of Names in the United Kingdom
OHIM fees
.eu domain name

Trade Mark Team Briefing Note on CTM Seniority (reissued) - Oct 2004

Features:

Reasons and requirements for claiming seniority
Timing of seniority claim
Lapse of national rights
Loss of CTM

Trade Mark Team Briefing Note on Madrid Protocol (reissued) - Apr 2004

Features:

Basis for filing and cost
The application form and registration
Objections to registration
After registration
Targeting Europe: considerations
Community trade mark v Madrid?
Table of official fees, list of protocol members and country codes
Example of completed application form

Trade Mark Team Briefing Note on Community Trade Marks (reissued) - Jan 2004

Features:

What is a CTM?
The CTM application process
Opposition
Conversion
Linkage
Seniority
Rights conferred by a CTM
Duration

Design Team Briefing Note on Registered European Community Design (reissued) - Oct 2003

Features:

What constitutes a registrable design?
The application procedure
Scope for protection
The advantages of the Community design system

Design Team Briefing note - Community Design Overview (reissued) - Sep 2003

Features:

An at-a-glance guide to the Registered Community Design

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