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The end of the Brexit overhang for trade marks: review, refile and revoke.

On the 31st December 2025, five years will have passed since the end of the Brexit transitional period on 31st December 2020. Why is this relevant? For UK cloned trade …

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How to Use IP Strategy to Tip the Odds in Your Favour

Porter’s Five Forces model [1] is just one example of a convenient model for exploring and understanding the forces at play in a competitive marketplace. Michael Porter’s Five Forces model …

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Blog Series: IP Ingredients, Part 5: New Year’s Resolutions

Since the clock struck midnight and we bid farewell to another year, many of us have embarked on the journey of self-improvement through New Year’s resolutions. While hitting the gym …

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IP considerations in COVID-19 vaccine development: tensions and tools

Development of COVID-19 vaccines will produce valuable IP that could be protected by patents. However, given that a patent application is not published until about 18 months from its initial …

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Fast track or slow lane: Patent strategy or IP cost control?

The patent application procedure is notoriously slow and driven by fixed deadlines. We are often asked how to speed up the process and also how to slow down the procedure …

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Knowledge to Money – IP Valuation

HGF has been asked to include intellectual property (IP) valuation as a topic at its IP in Healthcare Conference on a few occasions now. So this article sets out to …

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Chain of Title – The Importance of Getting It Right

Making sure there are no issues with ownership of IP is of crucial importance to any business. The current economic outlook is likely to result in events which require careful …

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Do I really need a contract?

From a lawyer’s perspective, in an ideal world, all business relationships would have a clearly written and concise contract in place setting out what the parties have agreed to do, …

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