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Fashionable patterns and IP

Luxury brands such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton, and Prada feature signature patterns on their luggage, accessories, and clothing. Despite their iconic status, trade mark registration for these patterns has proven challenging.

LEGAL UPDATE

Fashion: the IP edit

In this article we explore the various forms of IP relevant to the fashion industry and why this is important for brands.

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How do you market the sweet taste of rum?

A decision on 7 March 2024 from Miljø - og Fødevareklagenævnet in Denmark has finally given us some long-desired guidance to the producers of sweet rum on how to market and label their products.

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Confidentiality as currency: Protecting and leveraging trade secrets in biotech

Anybody who has worked in a lab will know that getting a protocol to work isn’t as simple as just following the instructions printed in a journal. Even routine optimisation takes a lot of time, once you know the secret it’s easy to replicate, and protecting this knowledge can be very valuable to biotech companies.