Posts Tagged ‘trademark’

In this post I’m going to offer some information that I think might be quite useful to you when you’re establishing a new business or product. You’re likely to be thinking about a name, commissioning a website and logo to launch it, and considering how you will market it and so on. Relatively few people [...]

EasyJet has now settled a two-year long dispute with its investor and founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou over the use of the EASY’ brand name. EasyJet has finally managed to sort out a deal with Sir Stellios to end the long-running dispute.  This enables easyJet to continue using their brand name for their airline and other services [...]

In business, as in life, we are constantly assessing and managing risks.  One of the most important risks to avoid is that of choosing your brand name without doing some very careful searches.  I know this from personal experience. When I started up my law firm I named it A1 Law, having done a brief [...]

World Intellectual Property Day is an annual occasion held on the 26th of April, the anniversary marking the date on which the Convention establishing the Word Intellectual Property Organisation came into force in 1970. The objective of the day is fourfold: to spread awareness of the relevance of intellectual property (IP); to demonstrate the way [...]

So you may have made an online application to OHIM and you may be wondering why, after being informed by the EU registry (OHIM) that you’re trade mark has been published, you are still waiting for the certificate in the post. Don’t worry it’s not a postal strike, this time, that has delayed its arrival, [...]

When I wrote the introduction to my proposed new book in early November Why Web 2.0 Brand Protection Requires Online Brand Promotion, I hoped to publish this chapter shortly afterwards.