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 – Trade mark owners often
encounter situations (usually overseas) where third parties have registered a domain name which
incorporates their trade mark or a closely similar name. This might be coincidental or deliberate.
Ownership of a trade mark registration in the territory in question is very important (but by no means
the only factor) in determining whether the trade mark owner will be able to do anything about the
situation. However, contrary to what many business people assume, ownership of a domain name
does not mean ownership of the right to use that name as a brand/trade mark.
• 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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