Introduction
A Briefest of Histories

Further Information:

• The legal issues affecting a new brand name - Checks (generally known as trade mark searching)
need to be done to ensure that no-one already owns the name. This can be expensive if foreign
markets are concerned. Decisis can conduct preliminary checks to avoid needless heavy expenditure.
However, these preliminary checks cannot be a substitute for availability searches in the UK and
other markets. Decisis can implement availability searching as appropriate.
• The legal issues affecting a new logo
• The legal issues affecting a new design
• Protecting a new brand name or new logo
• Protecting new designs
• Protecting ideas
• A Trade Mark Attorney
• Enforcement
• Defending a trade mark
• Defending other IP rights
• Delimitation of rights
• Licensing
• Franchising
• Exploitation of IP rights
• Exploitation of Intellectual Property rights: raising funds and securitisation
• Intellectual Property Rights as investments
• Acquisition and transfer
• Registration of transactions
• E-commerce and the internet
• Trade Marks and the internet/e-commerce
• Domain names, “ownership” of a name and cyber-squatting
• Disputing domain names
• Websites and e-commerce – legal issues
• Contractual issues in e-commerce
• The legal issues affecting advertising
• Intellectual Property and Insurance
• Intellectual Property and Insolvency

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