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Showing posts with label Trade marks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trade marks. Show all posts
6 April 2015

Stephen Hawking as a registered trade mark

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Stephen Hawking, the eminent Cambridge professor, applied on the 2 March 2015 for his own name as a trade mark in a number of activities. ...
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11 March 2015

The top brands in 2014: YouGov's BrandIndex

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The YouGov BrandIndex 2014 site has a wealth of data on popular brands, widely interpreted, from many countries. I wrote a similar post las...
24 February 2015

Teaching intellectual property at school

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Recently I ran a class teaching intellectual property to high school students at the American School in London . I've done this severa...
27 November 2014

The "patent" for Oreo® cookies

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We bought a packet of Oreo® cookies today at the local supermarket, and it made me wonder about the history of the product, a kind of "...
21 September 2014

Dragons' Den: The YoungOnes

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A week late, I watched an episode of Dragons' Den which was first shown on the 15 September. I was interested in the pitch for YoungOne...
5 June 2014

Football trade marks

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With the World Cup almost here, let's look at some football (soccer) trade marks from the European Community trade marks database, e-Sea...
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9 May 2014

The only way is Essex: an infringement ?

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I saw in today's Metro free newspaper that a fish and chip shop in Ongar, The only way is Fish , has been accused of infringing the rig...
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5 April 2014

Google's trade mark application for "Glass"

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Google has been trying to get a trade mark for the word "Glass", I hear. In July 2013 they applied for it for... Computer softwa...
30 January 2014

Manchester City's intellectual property

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The annual report of Manchester City football club states that in the year to 31 May 2013 they made £47 million from selling "intellec...
21 January 2014

i-hut®: the seriously cool caravan

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i-hut ® is the trade mark of what the company calls a "seriously cool caravan". It is made of wood which to me gives a Scandinavia...
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16 January 2014

The top brands in 2013: YouGov's BrandIndex

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Today's City AM free newspaper had an article about the top brands of 2013 in the UK. It was taken from a source I'd never heard of...
21 November 2013

The Morpher® folding helmet

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The Morpher® folding helmet is an invention by Londoner Jeffrey Woolf. The idea is (simply ?) a helmet that folds up neatly to make it easie...
20 November 2013

Doctor Who and trade marks

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The TV series Dr Who is at its 50th anniversary. Here, in a reworking of an old post from my old work blog, is a look at trade marks associa...
12 November 2013

Apple's store design trade mark

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I've just come across a story on Apple registering a trade mark for the appearance of their stores. Steve Jobs was responsible for App...
2 July 2013

Apple's watch invention

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The TechCrunch website has just announced that Apple has had a US patent granted for a disappearing bezel for an electronic watch to enable...