29 May 2024 · Articles, Entrepreneurship, Trademark
Think Ahead On Trademark Registration As Changes Are Not Free! WHERE WILL YOU BE IN 5 YEARSWhen registering your trademarks it is always worth spending the time thinking about where you will be within 5 years. MANAGE YOUR PARTNERSHIPS CAREFULLY‘Dry January’ was registered in 2013 for ‘educational purposes’, by a charity Alcohol Change UK. They […]
Read More16 May 2024 · Copyright, Entrepreneurship, Trademark
The short answer is you can’t. The longer answer is you can protect your company name, brand, reputation, innovation, creativity and knowledge using intellectual property rights. You can protect your company name with trademarks. Copyright and Intellectual Property are used interchangeably but they should not be really. I am John Pryor, making IP accessible and […]
Read More3 April 2024 · Articles, IP Strategy, Trademark
Brand protection strategy helps fast growth businesses defend the value in their brand using trademarks. Developing the right strategy early on is good advice.
Read More28 March 2024 · Articles, IP Strategy, Trademark
Planning ahead for trademark strategy. The owner of $100m street wear brand Represent tells how not having the trademark in Europe nearly broke the business
Read More12 March 2024 · Articles, IP Value, Trademark
IP is hidden from view The thing about IP is that it is not visible and the disasters are often swept under the carpet. Consider the #VW #RollsRoyce #BMW trademark issue 25 years ago that no one has heard about. Here the IP was hidden from view in that the #trademark was held in another […]
Read More26 February 2024 · Articles, Trademark
Choose your trademark or brand name carefully Why? Because you do not want to attract the attention of Facebook, Paypal, Hugo Boss, Harrods or LVMH, worried about trademark similarity misleading their customers. Your trademark (registered or not), is the mark under which you do your business and you want it to reflect your product or […]
Read More23 February 2024 · Articles, Copyright, Design, Innovation, Trademark
What does the intellectual property (IP) jargon mean? Why is there so much jargon in IP? What are the key IP terms? Too many people confuse the terms, because IP ‘jargonese’ is designed to keep us out! Think about it developing your own language provides barriers to entry and jobs for life. Education on IP […]
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6 December 2022 · Articles, Trademark
A common belief is that registering a company name at Companies House automatically provides you with the rights to trade with that name and that trademark protection has been acquired – it hasn’t!
Read More7 November 2022 · Articles, IP Value, Trademark
A couple of key lessons in October 2022 apparently: 1. When signing a long term business deal with a partner make sure to clearly outline who will own the intellectual property after the relationship ends: In October Adidas broke up with Kanye terminating a multi $bn shoe partnership ……the Adidas lawyers made sure they were […]
Read More20 October 2022 · Articles, Trademark
Trademark registration depends on your business objectives for that trademark: For example do you envisage that you will be trading in France in the next five years?
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