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Romania will join the Unitary Patent system with effect from 1 September 2024. This brings to 18 the number of countries participating in the Unitary Patent system (all of which are necessarily member states of the European Union). Consequently, European patents for which a request for unitary effect is registered from 1 September 2024 will automatically cover all 18 countries (i.e., including Romania). Such patents are referred to as “Unitary Patents”. It should be noted that the territorial…
Introduction On 29 April 2020, the High Court issued a decision that use of the trade mark SKYKICK in the UK infringed Sky Plc’s registrations for the mark SKY. While the finding of infringement is not especially noteworthy in itself, the decision is of great significance to brand owners in general and their representatives as explained below. Background Sky Plc, the well known television broadcaster, sued SkyKick UK Ltd, a company supplying cloud migration IT services, for trade mark infringement…
Patent attorneys in the UK are reporting a significant increase in requests for advice and assistance in protecting new inventions over recent months. This is being attributed by some to the coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown in the UK and it seems likely that there are several possible reasons for the apparent surge in inventive activity:- a) The lockdown has resulted in a large number of people working from home, many of them doing so for the first time. It is therefore…