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S&P Helps Client Secure IP for Smart Headphones
For over 20 years Duncan Walsh has been a professional squash player achieving success in ...
For over 20 years Duncan Walsh has been a professional squash player achieving success in winning championships. Frustrated with the design limitations of conve - Read more
Design Success in Ice Cream Dispute
We are pleased to report that our client Whitby Specialist Vehicles Ltd has recently been ...
We are pleased to report that our client Whitby Specialist Vehicles Ltd has recently been successful in the High Court in bringing infringement proceedings base - Read more
Swindell & Pearson Announces Appointments and Promotions on back of Successful Year
New faces as Swindell & Pearson Ltd looks ahead to 2015.
New faces as Swindell & Pearson Ltd looks ahead to 2015. - Read more
Practical Lessons from Magmatic versus PMS
Now the dust has settled on the English Court of Appeal’s ruling that PMS’s Kiddee Case do...
Now the dust has settled on the English Court of Appeal’s ruling that PMS’s Kiddee Case does not infringe Magmatic’s Community registered design of the Trunki s - Read more
Implications of the Intellectual Property Act 2014 to your Business
With certain provisions of the Intellectual Property Act 2014 having come into force in Oc...
With certain provisions of the Intellectual Property Act 2014 having come into force in October, Robert Sales of Swindell & Pearson looks at what practical step - Read more
UK and Germany Reach Compromise on UK Patent Box Tax Regime
The UK and Germany have reached a compromise position in relation to the UK Patent Box tax...
The UK and Germany have reached a compromise position in relation to the UK Patent Box tax regime and similar preferential tax regimes relating to patents or ot - Read more
Options for Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights in China
This is the second part of a two part series of articles on intellectual property (IP) rig...
This is the second part of a two part series of articles on intellectual property (IP) rights in China. In the previous article we discussed options for protect - Read more
The Intellectual Property Act 2014 and the Narrowing of the Scope of Protection Provided by UK Unregistered Design Right
This is the fifth of a five part series looking at the effect of the Intellectual Property...
This is the fifth of a five part series looking at the effect of the Intellectual Property Act 2014 on design law in the UK. In this final part we shall conside - Read more
Criminal Sanctions for the Intentional Copying of a Registered Design
This is the fourth of a five part series looking at the effect of the Intellectual Propert...
This is the fourth of a five part series looking at the effect of the Intellectual Property Act 2014 on design law in the UK. In this part we shall consider the - Read more
Swindell & Pearson Listed Amongst Top UK Patent Attorney Firms
Swindell & Pearson has been listed amongst the top UK patent attorney firms with its inclu...
Swindell & Pearson has been listed amongst the top UK patent attorney firms with its inclusion in the recently released 2014 edition of ‘The Legal 500’. - Read more
New Examination Schemes Announced by the European Patent Office
The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced new schemes which are intended to speed up ...
The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced new schemes which are intended to speed up the examination process before the EPO. - Read more
Protection for Prior Users of a Registered Design
This is the third of a five part series looking at the effect of the Intellectual Property...
This is the third of a five part series looking at the effect of the Intellectual Property Act 2014 on design law in the UK. In this part we shall consider the - Read more