David Bloom (IP insurance ex litigator) and John Pryor (IP for Business) talk all things IP for SME business #ExaltIP #Branding #Trademarks #registeredtrademark #unregisteredtrademark #SafeguardIP Protecting your Business Idea with Intellectual Property Protecting #Innovations with #Patents and #Brands with Registered #Trademarks also with Unregistered Trademarks, #DigitalBrand #BrandProtection and #SocialMedia. Help with using #Copyright and #TradeSecrets to protect your Software and Business. We Can Help You so call +447587885131 for a Confidential and Free Initial Chat or check www.Exaltip.com for more information. #intellectualpropertysolutions #valuedrivingintellectualproperty #entrepreneurs #startups #founders #brand #innovation #knowhow #reputation #intellectualproperty
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Nirmal (‘Nims’) Purja, a former Nepalese soldier and member of the U.K. Special Forces, takes on “Project Possible” with near superhuman endurance. A unruly pupil at school, he is an inspirational leader achieving incredible physical feats, persuading the Chinese government to open a mountain to complete his quest and also helping to bring Nepal’s amazing climbers the long overdue accolade they deserve. This is a strong reminder that success is a team sport. All Himalayan expeditions have had fearless, strong Nepalese Sherpas laying rope, carrying packs and ensuring success, but no one has heard their names!  In 14 Peaks the team of expert Nepalese climbers were bound by a clear (brotherhood) goal to bring their nation into climbing spotlight: front and centre, knocking all others off the spot and back into the last century.
Remember the world record for climbing the 14 different 8,000m peaks was 7 years before this team shattered it in 6 months and 6 days. At one stage they summited Everest, Makalu and Lhotse in one 48 hour period! When it comes to your intellectual property it will serve you well to have a good team around you. Oh and by the way there are 256 Sherpa trademark registrations in the UK ! Protecting your Business Idea with Intellectual Property Protecting #Innovations with #Patents and #Brands with Registered #Trademarks also with Unregistered Trademarks, #DigitalBrand #BrandProtection and #SocialMedia. Help with using #Copyright and #TradeSecrets to protect your Software and Business. We Can Help You so call +447587885131 for a Confidential and Free Initial Chat or check www.Exaltip.com for more information. #intellectualpropertysolutions #valuedrivingintellectualproperty #entrepreneurs #startups #founders #brand #innovation #knowhow #reputation #intellectualproperty Talisker failed to register a brand including a local place name, because it used the word port and that was already taken for drinks. It is fitting that this wonderful whisky is from one of the most beautiful islands in the UK, with the most amazing scenery - just watch out for the rain, mist and midges! Diageo, which owns Talisker, had successfully applied to register “Port Ruighe” but the body representing port winemakers in Portugal successfully objected to the name, Gaelic for Portree, because “Port” and “Porto” enjoy protection under EU law.  There are already several other Talisker brands with registered trademarks including Talisker, Talisker Storm and Talisker Skye.
This trademarking decision is further proof that it is worth reviewing the landscape before deciding on a new brand name. Protecting your Business Idea with Intellectual Property Protecting #Innovations with #Patents and #Brands with Registered #Trademarks also with Unregistered Trademarks, #DigitalBrand #BrandProtection and #SocialMedia. Help with using #Copyright and #TradeSecrets to protect your Software and Business. We Can Help You so call +447587885131 for a Confidential and Free Initial Chat or check www.Exaltip.com for more information. #intellectualpropertysolutions #valuedrivingintellectualproperty #entrepreneurs #startups #founders #brand #innovation #knowhow #reputation #intellectualproperty I am marvelling at the engineering skill of building bridges for horses that survive today’s traffic 170 years later. William Tierney Clarke (1783 - 1852) engineer designer of chain link suspension bridges built the Marlow, Hammersmith and Széchenyi Chain Bridges. When the Széchenyi bridge across the Danube in Budapest (lhs in the photo) opened in 1849 it was the largest span suspension bridge of its type in the world. It was a strategic target in the Hungarian war and it even withstood the tramping of 60,000 troops with their cannons.  The Hammersmith Bridge opened in 1824 but is struggling today having served beyond its aims. The Marlow Bridge (rhs and middle photos) in my hometown survives with careful support from the local council (it was closed for 6 months after an errant 32 wheeler lorry got stuck - max load is 2.5 tonnes!). Protecting your Business Intellectual Property Protecting #Innovations with #Patents and #Brands with Registered #Trademarks also with Unregistered Trademarks, #DigitalBrand #BrandProtection and #SocialMedia. Help with using #Copyright and #TradeSecrets to protect your Software and Business. We Can Help You so call +447587885131 for a Confidential and Free Initial Chat or check www.Exaltip.com for more information. #intellectualpropertysolutions #valuedrivingintellectualproperty #entrepreneurs #startups #founders #brand #innovation #knowhow #reputation #intellectualproperty “I just want more people to realise they cannot just copy and paste my photos into their content” Philip J A Benton is a friend and local photographer who captures images of sports and excels at company branding. Over coffee the other day he expressed his frustration at people’s general lack of understanding about what you can and can’t do with copyrighted © work. With a background in digital design and online marketing, Phil knows only too well the hurdles businesses face when trying to get good images. He rails against the tasteless use of stock images which ‘we can all see through straight away’ and says “using your own library of images makes your business more authentic and appealing”. The additional risk of not using your own images is infringing Copyright. Some businesses think it is ok to copy a photographer’s images from twitter and social media platforms to incorporate into their own content. Wrong....  Copyright is automatically granted to the creator and you are not at will to use their images without express permission and paying for the licence to do so.
Phil takes some excellent images at football games but what appeals most to me is the way he captures the emotions of the supporters in the crowd. There is a real skill to this, not to mention the costs of equipment and this is the reason Copyright © exists. Value, manage and protect your own IP but at the same time value others IP and in this case recognise what has gone into creating the image you adore and why Copyright exists to protect the artist and creator. Protecting your business Intellectual Property Protecting #Innovations with #Patents and #Brands with Registered #Trademarks also with Unregistered Trademarks, #DigitalBrand #BrandProtection and #SocialMedia. Help with using #Copyright and #TradeSecrets to protect your Software and Business. We Can Help You so call +447587885131 for a Confidential and Free Initial Chat or check www.Exaltip.com for more information. #intellectualpropertysolutions #valuedrivingintellectualproperty #entrepreneurs #startups #founders #brand #innovation #knowhow #reputation #intellectualproperty Levels of IP education and understanding in business need some work Video interview with Donal O’Connell of Chawton IP Services, including a preliminary insight into the results of his recent comprehensive survey on IP education. Part of the Lexdech IP Protection series. The UK government wants the finance sector, social media firms and the broader digital ecosystem to help prevent push payment scams (bank transfer scams). Soon it will no longer be acceptable to call ‘buyer beware’ since the UK government (at long last) wants to legislate to make reimbursement mandatory for APP (authorised push payment) fraud. Criminals take the easiest route to profit and so as hacking got a bit more difficult the criminals targeted the next weakest link which in this case is us, the humans. You see we are all susceptible and likely to fall for ‘engineered’ messages, fake websites, emails, social media posts, texts and phone calls. The criminals then trick us into sharing personal data, so it becomes easier to fool us into making payments to what appear to be legitimate but are actually criminal recipients.  It is a growing problem, which, according to banking trade body UK Finance, increased by 70% in the first six months of this year, reaching a value of £355m.
If you run a business and are worried about this, then training employees to recognise the signs of ‘social engineering’ is a good step. Also using technology like Lexdech to help identify fake websites etc before it gets too late. Protecting your Brands Online Help with using #Trademarks and #Copyrights Online, #domainwatching #Digital #BrandProtection #DigitalTrademarkProtection #Lexdech We are hearing more and more about trade secrets recently. In this video I am interviewed by David Bloom of Safeguard IP. You will learn:
Protecting your business Intellectual Property Protecting #Innovations with #Patents and #Brands with Registered #Trademarks also with Unregistered Trademarks, #DigitalBrand #BrandProtection and #SocialMedia. Help with using #Copyright and #TradeSecrets to protect your Software and Business. We Can Help You so call +447587885131 for a Confidential and Free Initial Chat or check www.Exaltip.com for more information. #intellectualpropertysolutions #valuedrivingintellectualproperty #entrepreneurs #startups #founders #brand #innovation #knowhow #reputation #intellectualproperty 20,000 leagues under the sea? Well 2,000m to be precise. UK and US military experts are working very hard right now to recover an F35 fighter jet that is lying 2km beneath surface of the Mediterranean Sea. Why? Because it is chock full of secrets neither the US nor the UK want their competitors (read enemies) getting their hands on.  The 'Top Gun pilot' in the picture never left the ground but thankfully the real pilot ejected safely Worryingly, the sea lanes where the crash happened are frequented by Russian ships and submarines. This is proper 007 stuff and a race against time. Imagine the technology required to recover this plane!
Never mind the £100m cost or replacing this lost jet, what the Royal Navy and US salvage teams are seeking to recover is something more valuable: the weapons and computer systems. This is the intellectual property and in this case most definitely the trade secrets, providing competitive advantage. Take a leaf out of the military book where the unexpected happens…. It could be very worth your while to think twice about how you are protecting your competitive advantage, IP and trade secrets and how you might respond if there was a (risk of) a breach! #F35 #RoyalNavy #competitiveadvantage #TopGun #intellectualproperty #tradesecrets Protecting your business Intellectual Property Protecting #Innovations with #Patents and #Brands with Registered #Trademarks also with Unregistered Trademarks, #Digital #BrandProtection and #SocialMedia. Help with using #Copyright and #TradeSecrets to protect your Software and Business. We Can Help You so call +447587885131 for a Confidential and Free Initial Chat or check www.Exaltip.com for more information. #intellectualpropertysolutions #valuedrivingintellectualproperty #entrepreneurs #startups #founders #brand #innovation #knowhow #reputation Last night Banksy sold paintings of ‘Love is in the Air’ and ‘Trolley Hunters’ for 3,093 ETH ($14,6m) at Sothebys, which was notable as bids were accepted in ether coins. This followed a similar sale in May this year. Good for Banksy you might say. Well maybe, but I was expecting him to be selling NFTs. This would arguably have raised more ETH. However, he has previously fallen foul of intellectual property law due in part because he is anonymous and hence ‘the rightful owner cannot be identified’ and so maybe he is not able to sell unique NFTs?  Quentin Tarantino, on the other hand, does appear to own certain rights to his works and has announced plans to sell a collection of NFTs based on his movie Pulp Fiction. It is said to include scenes in the script that never made it to screen, as well as art and commentaries about the film.
However, the studio Miramax has other ideas and is arguing in a lawsuit that Tarantino does not own all the rights to sell NFTs to the film. Ownership of IP rights is easier to establish early on as both of these stories show and difficult to establish after the event. #Banksy #Sothebys #ETH #PulpFiction Protecting your business Intellectual Property Protecting #Innovations with #Patents and #Brands with Registered #Trademarks also with Unregistered Trademarks, #Digital #BrandProtection and #SocialMedia. Help with using #Copyright and #TradeSecrets to protect your Software and Business. We Can Help You so call +447587885131 for a Confidential and Free Initial Chat or check www.Exaltip.com for more information. #intellectualpropertysolutions #valuedrivingintellectualproperty #entrepreneurs #startups #founders #brand #innovation #knowhow #reputation |
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