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UK Retailers Can Apply for Trademark

Trademark @ November 19, 2007 # One Comment

In 1994, the Trademark Act caused the British legal trademark approach to fall in line with the general EU Directive regarding trademarks. The Trademark Act thus forced the UK to handle trademark applications in the same way as in the rest of Europe.
It was thanks to this Trademark Act, that recently the UK Registrar of […]

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UK IP Office No Longer Defends Trademarks

Trademark @ October 1, 2007 # No Comment Yet

The UK Intellectual Property Office has decided today that it will shift responsibilities for existing trademarks from its own office to the owners of existing trademarks. This means that businesses have to behave more proactively if they want to ensure that their trademarks are not to be infringed.
When a new business or person applies a […]

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