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CITMA strategic plan 2024-2026
We are pleased to present our plan for supporting you and our changing profession over the next three years.
EUIPO launches mediation centre
The EUIPO has launched a new mediation centre for alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
London Christmas Lunch 2023: photo gallery
Our London Christmas Lunch brought together more than 650 of our members and friends - see our pick of the photos.
Celebrating 2023’s CITMA awards winners
The CITMA awards are our chance to celebrate the top trade mark students in the country. We are delighted to announce the 2023 winners.
Brexit
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.
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.
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.
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.
Features
Managing and identifying risks to mental health in the workplace
All employers have the ability to work towards creating mentally healthy workplaces.
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.
Lifting the lid on imposter syndrome
Many of us will have moments of feeling uncomfortable in our workplaces but when this feeling pervades every thought it can develop into something more severe.
The future of trade marks: protecting unusual trade marks in the EU, Germany, and Sweden
As the trade mark world evolves, practioners continue to ask: what can be protected?
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And yet they move: A story of IP and technology assessment - sponsored content
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Pause over for pro bono
Kate O’Rourke celebrates the relaunch of a vital tool in the fight for equal access to IP justice
Golden age thinking
Ashwin Julka brings us up-to-date on the evergreen trend for nostalgia branding
Negligence claims: No more?
Redvers Cunningham of PAMIA provides his pointers for avoiding issues over professional advice
Case comments
Lost in a crowd
Horse and rider motifs yet again reared their heads in court, writes Lucy Singer
No love lost
Stephanie Taylor shares why a heart-shaped motif was not found to be novel
Slippery issue
Henry Schlaefli stresses the risks of submitting arguments that could damage your own case
Human hand still holds sway
A US court has ruled autonomous AI output is not protected under copyright law, reports Erika Coccia