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21 December 2014
The whole notion of trademark, patent and domain name protection has become increasingly important. Protection is crucial in this entrepreneurial age when millions of enterprising people are setting up businesses and developing inventions and ideas — but it also opens the door to potential trademark scams.
[Read more...]10 December 2014
A perpetual motion or over-unity device is a hypothetical machine that continues indefinitely without any outside intervention or external source of energy. It consists of a machine that, once set in motion, will continue in motion without ever stopping and without the influence of any further forces required to keep it going.
[Read more...]22 September 2014
The Intellectual Property Law is changing to help businesses better protect their rights in the UK and abroad and to modernise certain aspects of the law.
[Read more...]15 September 2014
With the Ice Bucket Challenge being the recent internet craze and most of the population taking part, it was no surprise when The ALS Association filed an application to obtain U.S. trademark registration
[Read more...]15 August 2014
Protecting your business name and ideas is a must if you want to avoid other businesses and your competitors from stealing your identity, which is why getting these trademarked is important to your business.
[Read more...]30 July 2014
Downing IP have been awarded ‘Patents Law Firm of the Year’ by Acquisition International magazine.
[Read more...]30 June 2014
Infringing a patent means manufacturing, using, selling or importing a patented product or process without the patent owner’s permission. The owner of a patent can take legal action against you and claim damages if you infringe their patent.
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