Andy King - January 2, 2025 Canadian Trade Mark Registrations to be Randomly Selected to Prove Use Owners of trade marks registered in Canada should be aware of new initiative that could require ...
Andy King - November 27, 2024 Bad Faith or Business Strategy? Sky vs. SkyKick Sets a Precedent The long running saga of the battle between Sky Ltd (“Sky”) and SkyKick UK Ltd (“SkyKick”) is ...
Andy Newland - November 21, 2024 Mewburn Ellis wins the NetDocuments Inspire Customer Automation Award Mewburn Ellis is proud to announce that we have been awarded the prestigious NetDocuments Inspire ...
Joanna Smith - October 2, 2024 Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2025 We are extremely proud to once again be ranked tier one for our patent and trade mark practices in ...
Andy King - March 8, 2024 Navigating the Sonic Maze: overcoming the challenges with registering sound marks in the UK In an increasingly crowded market, businesses are recognising the value of sound marks (or ‘sonic ...
Andy King - January 23, 2024 Unlocking Affordability: Our Exciting Trade Mark Price Reductions for 2024! As part of our commitment to providing exceptional services that offer great value and put our ...
Joanna Smith - October 5, 2023 Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2024 We are extremely proud to once again be ranked tier one for our patent and trade mark practices in ...
Andy King - May 22, 2023 Meet The Team: Andy King, Head of Trade Marks, Chartered Trade Mark Attorney As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to partner and Head of Trade Marks Andy King about ...
Andy King - May 15, 2023 Percy Pig ice cream renamed after M&S request A small family-run ice cream parlour based in Hertfordshire has recently renamed its 'Perky Pig ...
Andy King - April 28, 2023 Fail to Prepare; Prepare to Fail: a discussion about representation issues at the UK IPO The UK IPO has recently introduced an important change to the rules on representation of certain ...
Joanna Smith - February 20, 2023 WTR 1000 - The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals 2023 We are delighted be ranked silver for prosecution and strategy in WTR 1000 – The World’s Leading ...
Andy King - January 9, 2023 Form TM7 & TM7A — discrepancies between threatened and actual opponents at the UKIPO Publication of a UK trade mark application, following examination and acceptance by the UK IPO, ...
Jacqueline Murphy - October 14, 2022 Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2023 We are extremely proud to be ranked tier one for our patent and trade mark practices in the 2023 ...
Jacqueline Murphy - March 4, 2022 WTR 1000 - The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals 2022 We are delighted be ranked silver for prosecution and strategy in WTR 1000 – The World’s Leading ...
Andy King - March 2, 2022 COVID pandemic sparks significant increase in domain name disputes The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has recently published updated statistics on ...
Jacqueline Murphy - September 30, 2021 Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2022 Mewburn Ellis is proud to be ranked top tier for our patent and trade mark practices in the 2022 ...
Andy King - August 23, 2021 The Trademark Registry Exchange - protecting trade marks against Generic Top-Level Domains cybersquatting The Trademark Registry Exchange (or ‘TREx’) offers domain name owners a cost-effective measure for ...
Andy King - August 12, 2021 Apply for your Brexit UK trade mark re-filings now to minimise the risk of possible examination delays Owners of EU trade mark rights that were pending on 31 December 2020 have until 30 September 2021 ...
Andy King - July 12, 2021 UEFA v The (European) Super League – intellectual property rights on the legal playing field On 18 April 2021, the proposal for a new mid-week competition for European football sent shockwaves ...
Andy King - July 2, 2021 Ambush marketing: playing by the rules at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games In the year of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games (yes, it is still Tokyo 2020 and not Tokyo ...
Andy King - June 28, 2021 YouGov survey finds that nearly a quarter of businesses have been a victim of cybersquatting A recent survey conducted by Mewburn Ellis, in conjunction with YouGov, revealed that nearly a ...
Andy King - June 2, 2021 Do not pass Go - General Court affirms bad faith in Hasbro MONOPOLY trade mark case EU General Court (GC) in Case T‑663/19 confirms that refiling an identical mark for identical ...
Andy King - April 21, 2021 Thoughts on UK IPO representation for foreign-owned UK trade mark registrations Foreign owners of UK trade mark registrations are advised to appoint a UK IPO representative, if ...
Andy King - March 15, 2021 A perfect score for British Gymnastics at IPEC The national governing body (NGB) for gymnastics in the UK, British Gymnastics, has announced that ...
Jacqueline Murphy - February 17, 2021 World Trademark Review 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals 2021 Mewburn Ellis is delighted to once again be ranked in World Trademark Review 1000, the research ...
Andy King - February 3, 2021 The principle of replacement in trade marks The creation, by Brexit, of many thousands of new ‘comparable’ (or ‘cloned’) UK trade mark ...
Andy King - November 24, 2020 Amazon Pharmacy trade mark battle Amazon’s latest trademark dispute stems from its efforts to launch a new pharmacy service in the ...
Andy King - November 6, 2020 The impact of Brexit on .EU domain names Internet domain names are crucial commercial assets for many businesses. They are communicated to ...
Andy King - October 26, 2020 Utilising the potential of Amazon Brand Registry to protect and benefit your brand As representatives for thousands of our client’s EUTM and UK trade mark registrations, we often ...
Andy King - October 22, 2020 Three-dimensional Ferrari trade mark driven to partial cancellation EUIPO Cancellation Division partially cancels trade mark consisting of a three-dimensional ...
Andy King - September 18, 2020 Bad Faith at the UK IPO – a review of recent cases The recent Sky v SkyKick case has put a renewed focus on the issue of “bad faith” at the UK IPO. ...
Andy King - September 11, 2020 Jaguar Land Rover unable to defend three-dimensional trade mark before the UK High Court UK High Court (HC) upholds decision of UK IPO to refuse registration of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)’s ...
Andy King - July 29, 2020 ®egistration and/or use of a trade mark – an automatic defence in the UK to trade mark infringement claims? It is quite a common and perfectly reasonable assumption by some clients that by registering a ...
Andy King - July 16, 2020 Madrid Protocol designations - the growing requirement for domestic representatives The absence of a requirement to instruct local professional representation is considered one of the ...
Andy King - June 18, 2020 Life after Skykick: where next for wide specification filings at the UK IPO and EU IPO? This article examines some of the issues around the concept of use and intention to use a trade ...
Andy King - February 20, 2020 Sky v Skykick - status quo remains for trade mark owners Background Sky, the TV, broadcasting, media and telecommunications giant, brought infringement and ...
Andy King - December 4, 2019 Rubik’s Cube trade mark in puzzling General Court decision This article was originally published on the CITMA website. View the original article here. Ruling ...
Andy King - August 12, 2019 USPTO changes rules of representation for overseas trade mark applicants The US Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has recently changed the rules regarding the need for ...
Andy King - July 31, 2019 Cultural (mis)appropriation in trademarks: can (and should) you register culturally sensitive names? Andy King, Partner and Trademark Attorney at Mewburn Ellis, discusses the controversial issue of ...
Andy King - July 24, 2019 New European spirit drinks regulation EU 2019/787 Dydra Donath breaks down the new regulation the EU has placed on spirit drink trademarks. Article ...
Andy King - May 20, 2019 Glen Buchenbach - Scotch whisky? Originally published in The Trademark Lawyer, Dydra Donath discusses the recent CJEU decision on ...
