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Background – the GDPR On 25 May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force across the EU. Many businesses and their advisers outside the UK and the EU will be familiar with it. For the GDPR app ...

Blake Morgan are delighted to share the inaugural edition of their Intellectual Property roundup - OwnershIP The range of the selected articles – from the publishing of photos on social media to controlling the c ...

On 1 October 2017, the UK Intellectual Property Office issued a change in the way that owners of registered designs can mark their products. It was previously the case that registered design owners were required to mark ...

In a recent appeal decision by the ECJ, an EU General Court decision was upheld in respect of the word mark Chempioil and an earlier figurative mark Champion. Decision of the EU General Court In June 2016, the EU ...

With new social media platforms and photo sharing apps becoming more and more popular the risk of copyright infringement through the sharing of photography is more present than ever. The main purpose of social media is ...

Tough new EU laws mean businesses could be liable for fines of up to 20 million euros (£17m) or 4% of their worldwide turnover, warns leading law firm Blake Morgan. The law firm warns that many organisations across the ...