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Coincidence or copycat? Laura Trapnell & Louis Iveson examine the increasing trend in litigating copyright disputes over hit songs

Are Del Boy & Rodders heading to court? Laura Trapnell looks into an unusual claim

The inventor of a type of food packaging and a flashing light cannot be granted patents because they’re an AI (artificial intelligence) machine, the Court of Appeal has held

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has launched a ‘consultation on the UK’s future exhaustion of intellectual property rights regime’.

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has launched a consultation on the Copyright (Free Public Showing or Playing) (Amendment) Regulations 2016, which removed ‘film’ from the list of exceptions to copyright infringement in section 72 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988).

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has published a report into the economic and innovation impacts of trade secrets.

Mr Justice Meade has been appointed judge in charge of intellectual property.

The shape of the iconic 1950s Jaguar C-type car is protected by copyright, the Swedish High Court has held in a landmark decision for EU intellectual property law

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has published updated guidance for customers and users of IP

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has issued guidance about protecting international intellectual property rights in the UK from 1 January 2021

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Corporate governance and company law specialist joins the team

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NLJ this week: Employment law’s fine margins

From gender-critical speech to notice periods and incapability dismissals, employment law continues to turn on fine distinctions. In his latest employment law brief for NLJ, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School reviews a cluster of recent decisions, led by Bailey v Stonewall, where the Court of Appeal clarified the limits of third-party liability under the Equality Act

NLJ this week: Promises broken on non-molestation orders?

Non-molestation orders are meant to be the frontline defence against domestic abuse, yet their enforcement often falls short. Writing in NLJ this week, Jeni Kavanagh, Jessica Mortimer and Oliver Kavanagh analyse why the criminalisation of breach has failed to deliver consistent protection

NLJ this week: Assisted dying under the legal microscope

Assisted dying remains one of the most fraught fault lines in English law, where compassion and criminal liability sit uncomfortably close. Writing in NLJ this week, Julie Gowland and Barny Croft of Birketts examine how acts motivated by care—booking travel, completing paperwork, or offering emotional support—can still fall within the wide reach of the Suicide Act 1961

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Intellectual property

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch

Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr

Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown