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 - Broadly similar steps are followed to those set out above although in the
case of copyright there is no registration framework equivalent to (b) above. Copyright does have the
copyright tribunal (also part of the UK IPO) which is intended to decide on the terms and conditions of
copyright licences or licensing schemes of collective copyright bodies where the parties cannot agree
between themselves. Appeal from that tribunal is to the High Court in England and the Court of
Session in Scotland. It is not part of their function to deal with copyright infringement questions which
are a matter for the court. It is important to obtain specialist professional advice in all cases because
there are likely to be important differences depending on the IP rights and other relevant
circumstances.
• 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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