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New menopause support community launched

IP Inclusive has launched a new community group to support those in the IP professions impacted by menopause and perimenopause.

15th Mar 2024 | News
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IPKat gives CITMA-published book the thumbs up

Michael Edenborough’s Contentious Trade Mark Registry Proceedings “is a must-have book for every Chartered Trade Mark Attorney” declared a recent review from renowned intellectual property blog IPKat.

15th Mar 2024 | News
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LSB publishes latest regulator assessment

The Legal Services Board's latest analysis of the eight legal regulators, including IPReg, assesses the standard to which the regulators are currently working.

15th Mar 2024 | News
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Presenting 2024’s quiz champions 

Our annual charity quiz saw the team from Abel + Imray walk away victorious, with a perfect score of 126 points.

12th Feb 2024 | News
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Brexit

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UK IPO updates address for service guidance

Ahead of the upcoming changes to address for service rules for comparable trade marks and re-registered designs, the UK IPO has published updated guidance on the requirements.

6th Sep 2023 | News
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UK government announces no action on exhaustion

The government needs more time to explore the UK’s future exhaustion of intellectual property (IP) regime meaning there will be no imminent change, it has announced.

18th Jan 2022 | News
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Deadline looms for pending EU rights

Earlier UK filing dates for some 70,000 trade marks are still eligible to claimed with the deadline just six weeks away.

19th Aug 2021 | News
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UK IPO's warning about priority filings

Just ten weeks remain until the filing deadline for UK priority applications based on rights that were pending at the EUIPO on 1st January 2021.

21st Jul 2021 | News
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Features

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Law and practice snippets: February 2024 

An update on this month’s practice points by our Law and Practice Committee. 

14th Feb 2024 | Feature
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Career paths: The route from formalities to Chartered Trade Mark Attorney

“A new Trade Mark Attorney joined the team and asked me one day why I had never considered qualifying as an attorney myself - and I found that I didn’t have a very good answer."

13th Feb 2024 | Feature
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Managing and identifying risks to mental health in the workplace

All employers have the ability to work towards creating mentally healthy workplaces.

20th Nov 2023 | Feature
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Clarivate's New Artificial Intelligence Tools to Enable Trade Mark Professionals to Assess Brand Risk from Every Angle

The new tools gather, analyse, compare, and deliver insights from more than 140 million trade mark records and more than 6.2 million trade mark office and court decisions. This feature contains sponsored content.

24th Oct 2023 | Feature

CITMA Review features:

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Keeping the peace

Carol Nyahasha explains the core principles behind brand co-existence

27th Feb 2024 | CITMA Review feature
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Letter from IP inclusive: Allyship: what, who and when?

Andrea Brewster returns to a subject that will stay top of the agenda.

27th Feb 2024 | CITMA Review feature
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Insider February 2024

CITMA news and updates.

27th Feb 2024 | CITMA Review feature
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Reverse thinking

A fresh approach to mentoring can be a step forward for your firm, suggests Rachael O’Connor.

27th Feb 2024 | CITMA Review feature

Case comments

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Omega’s missing link

Not all evidence showed sufficient connection, writes Tim Greenwood.

27th Feb 2024 | Case comment
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The party’s over

David Birchall reports on how a business that began proceedings ended up losing its own rights.

27th Feb 2024 | Case comment
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Predator in parts

Amelia Skelding explains the weaknesses in the Opponent’s attack.

27th Feb 2024 | Case comment
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Anno horribilis

Robert Franks reflects on a bad outcome for the Applicant.

27th Feb 2024 | Case comment
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