Over the past decade or so, social media has transformed from an entertaining pastime and means for social networking into a modern-day marketing tool, for both franchisors and franchisees alike.
“New year, new me” …well, the second month of 2019 is here which means that our New year’s resolutions are next year’s problem and we are pretty much back to basics.
Intellectual property rights are divided into a number of different categories, each of which is regulated by its own act, or by the common law. Patents and designs make up two of these categories.
While we have previously written about the problem of trade marks becoming generic, there has recently been a development in the United Kingdom (originating from the European Union) regarding generic trade marks, that appears to be worthy of further comment and discussion.
In 2015, the creators of the YouTube channel, PinkFong, published the Baby Shark music video on its channel.
Certain amendments to the UK Trade Marks Act 1994 and their Trade Mark Rules 2008 came into effect on 14 January 2019. These changes implement the EU Trade Mark Directive 2015 in the UK.