Decisis - specialists in Intellectual Property and related legal areas

Why IP?: a compendium

Introduction
A Briefest of Histories

Further Information:

• The legal issues affecting a new brand name
• 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: All e-commerce transactions will be subject to terms and
conditions to which the purchaser of the goods or services will have agreed. Whenever a dispute
arises those contractual terms will inevitably play their part in that dispute. In cases where English law
applies the terms and conditions of such contracts will be interpreted in accordance with English
Common Law (case-based law), and UK regulatory legislation. This legislation will include the Unfair
Contract Terms Act 1977, the Sale of Goods Act 1979, the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982,
the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999, as well as European legislation such as
the E-Commerce Directive (in the case of Internet Service Providers). It must also be observed that in
many cases one or more of the parties may be based outside the United Kingdom. This raises the
issue of whether the laws and jurisdiction of a foreign court may apply. Decisis can advise and assist
businesses in understanding and responding to these issues, and using the rules to their own benefit.
• The legal issues affecting advertising
• Intellectual Property and Insurance
• Intellectual Property and Insolvency