On 13 November 2024 the UK Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of SkyKick UK Ltd and Sky Ltd (full decision here). By the time the long-running dispute reached the Supreme Court, the key point in issue was...more
Leigh Smith and H. Straat Tenney of Locke Lord provide a comparative analysis of the handling of pre- and post-sale confusion of trademarked goods by jurisdiction to draw interesting conclusions for corporations to consider...more
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has recently upheld a decision of the English Court of Appeal concerning the criteria for when a website will be considered to be targeting consumers in the United Kingdom ("UK"). The...more
On 20 December 2023 the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the long-running saga of the DABUS patent applications in the United Kingdom. Whilst the judgment is in essence confined to the interpretation of “inventor”...more
The Advertising Standards Authority (“ASA”), the UK’s independent advertising regulator, recently added yet another well-known influencer to its published “naughty list” of influencers found to have repeatedly failed to...more
UK IPO Practice Update: UK Addresses for Service -
The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) has recently changed its practice on the service of invalidation, revocation, and opposition proceedings against trade marks...more
The UK Government on 28 June 2022 published its response to its Consultation on Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and Intellectual Property (“IP”). The Consultation examined three areas of IP where the capability of AI has...more