A business name registration only registers the name of your business, for the purposes of allowing the public to know who they’re dealing with. This is a legal requirement when trading a business under a name other than the legal entities’ name. A business name doesn’t have legal personality itself, it’s more like an alias […]

The short answer is that yes, it is a good idea to register your trade mark in China if you manufacture goods in China – even if you don’t sell or promote directly in China. Recent case law suggests that the use of a trade mark on goods manufactured in China for the purpose of […]

Now that Brexit is done all EU trade marks and international registrations designating the EU which were protected, so effectively registered, as at the 31st of December, 2020, have been given a corresponding national UK trademark registration. That’s been created by the UK Intellectual Property Office. Those national registrations are now completely independent and are […]

We hear this a lot. Not only in our professional roles, but also just in everyday life and especially on social media these days. We think this may come from a misunderstanding that some people have about the nature and the bounds of intellectual property rights, or it could just be as simple as people […]

To start with, we should define trade secrets. Essentially a trade secret is any commercial information that is valuable, and it derives that value by virtue of it’s being kept secret. So some examples of trade secrets include product formulations, financial information, databases, customer lists. The 11 secret herbs and spices recipe, and the Coca-Cola […]