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Parallel Goods and Exhaustion of Rights after Brexit

December 10, 2020By Mark SmithBrexit, Exhaustion of Rights, Parallel Imports No Comments

First things first: what do “parallel trade” and “exhaustion of rights” mean? When goods that are protected by intellectual property (IP) are placed on the market by the IP owner, or with their permission (e.g. by a licensee or distributor), the IP owner “exhausts” their rights in that territory. This means that they cannot stop … Read More

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Harrison IP @HarrisonIP·

21 Jul

If you had an #EUTM (EU #trademark) application that was pending on 1 January 2021 and wish to extend protection to the UK, you only have until the end of September 2021 to re-file it in the UK while keeping your original EU filing date.

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Harrison IP @HarrisonIP·

20 Jul

Did you know that when fish fingers debuted in the 1950s, they were protected by a US #patent? This article charts their unlikely but enduring success https://is.gd/cRyGzY

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Harrison IP @HarrisonIP·

8 Jul

The real moral of this story - #trademark battles over the names Snowdonia and its Welsh equivalent, Eyri - for prospective #brand owners is that geographical indicators are very low down on the totem poll of distinctiveness - https://is.gd/RCyBWM

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Harrison IP @HarrisonIP·

5 Jul

This story - @AmazonUK objecting to use of "prime day" in the fishing trade and then backtracking - reminds us that a registered #trademark confers no right to stop anyone using a descriptive word or phrase - https://is.gd/oQpFYq

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Harrison IP @HarrisonIP·

3 Jun

Debate about whether waiver of #patent rights leads to more affordable medicines was evergreen even before the #pandemic. This @nytimes podcast mostly avoids the ideological question & debates its EFFICACY as a #vaccine accessibility/deployment strategy:
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