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Cloudy skies ahead for Aldi – Thatchers reigns victorious over Aldi’s imitation cider
Posted: 11/02/2025
The Court of Appeal recently handed down a decision in which it partly overturned the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court’s (IPEC) judgment and found that Aldi's packaging took unfair advantage of Thatchers' well-known trade mark. Thatchers alleged that its registered trade mark (depicted below) was being infringed by Aldi’s own......>>
The Cladribine Decision
Posted: 11/02/2025
In this video, Dr Duncan Curley, a Partner in our Patents team, discusses the recent UK Court of Appeal decision on Merck Serono's cladribine product, Mavenclad.
Court breaks up representative action romance: Getty Images v Stability AI
Posted: 10/02/2025
The case of Getty Images (US) Inc and Ors v Stability AI Ltd [2025] EWHC 38 (Ch), which the team previously reported on (see here), continues to progress through the English High Court. Most recently, the claimants sought for Thomas M Barwick Inc, the sixth claimant, to act as a representative for a class of individuals in the claim. On 14 January......>>
Forging collaborations: the power of commercial agreements
Posted: 17/12/2024
Although not strictly intellectual property rights, trade secrets and other confidential information are an important means by which early-stage companies can gain a competitive advantage. Confidential information is protected without further formality by an enforceable equitable duty of confidence, but are more commonly protected by......>>
Supreme Court’s decision in Sky v SkyKick is a warning to those filing overly broad trade mark specifications
Posted: 12/12/2024
The long-running saga of Sky v Skykick has continued this year, coming before the Supreme Court. On 13 November 2024, it rendered its judgment on the latest instalment of these proceedings and importantly, the highly anticipated issue of bad faith in trade mark filings. The issues to be addressed by the Supreme Court were twofold......>>
Intellectual property: the bedrock of innovation
Posted: 05/12/2024
Intellectual property (IP) is often the most valuable asset for early-stage companies, particularly those in the technology and life sciences sectors. IP rights not only provide legal protection for an innovation but can also help establish brand identity and be used as collateral to secure financing. IP does not just mean patents but also includes copyright......>>
AI and the use of data in the life sciences sector
Posted: 24/06/2024
AI is having a major impact on life sciences. Its ability to process vast quantities of data and information faster than humans has numerous valuable applications in the sector, from creating new drugs and targets, to use in medical devices to diagnose disease, as well as monitoring patients remotely, and analysing data, for example from MRI......>>
Generative AI in the courts: Getty Images v Stability AI
Posted: 16/02/2024
In January 2023, Getty Images – a ‘pre-eminent global visual content creator and market place’ – commenced legal proceedings in the English High Court against Stability AI, an open-source generative artificial intelligence (AI) company. Getty is alleging infringement of its IP rights in relation to Stability’s deep learning AI model that automatically......>>
Supreme Court rules that AI system cannot be named as inventor on UK patent
Posted: 10/01/2024
After four years of legal proceedings the UK Supreme Court has now finally settled the question of whether an AI system can be an inventor on a UK patent. In Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] UKSC 49, the court decided that a patent application which names an AI system as the inventor cannot proceed......>>
New address for service requirements at the UKIPO affecting comparable (clone) UK trade marks and re-registered designs - effective 1 January 2024
Posted: 01/12/2023
As of 1 January 2024, the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) is changing its rules concerning addresses for service for certain proceedings affecting United Kingdom trade marks and designs. This important development affects EU/EEA owners and representatives of UK comparable trade marks and re-registered designs (‘cloned rights’)......>>

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