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Horizon Scanner: Intellectual Property for Chinese Businesses – Autumn 2026
We’re pleased to present you with the sixth edition of our IP Horizon Scanner for Chinese businesses, which highlights the key developments and anticipated changes over the coming months and their specific impact on Chinese businesses.
Remedies For Copyright Infringement: What Actually Works In Practice
LS Lewis Silkin More We have two things at our core: people – both ours and yours - and a focus on creativity, technology and innovation. Whether you are a fast growth start up or a large multinational business, we help you realise the potential in your people and navigate your strategic HR and legal issues, both nationally and internationally.
what actually works in practice
This week, we turn to remedies for copyright infringement – and how to act quickly without over-escalating. Copyright is a well-trodden area of law that enjoys a degree of international harmonisation. In the UK, it is an unregistered right and arises automatically upon the creation of a particular work. In the case of literary, dramatic and musical works, the right arises once the work is recorded in writing or otherwise.
China Without The Myths: What Still Matters Most For Trade Mark Protection
Nicholas Buckland’s articles from Lewis Silkin are most popular: with Senior Company Executives, HR and Finance and Tax Executives with readers working within the Healthcare and Law Firm industries As we count down to INTA 2026 in London, we're continuing our series exploring the ideas and challenges shaping the intellectual property landscape.
what still matters most for trade mark protection
In 2025, China had the highest trade mark filing activity in the world accounting for 45% of all trade marks filed globally, and so brand owners are often coming up against intellectual property and trade mark challenges when expanding into China. This article aims to demystify Chinese trade mark practice, by providing practical considerations.
Geo-blocking, VPNs And Copyright: Can You Really Contain Content On The Internet?
Lewis Silkin are most popular: within Cannabis & Hemp topic(s) in United Kingdom with readers working within the Retail & Leisure industries Media rights are regularly sliced and diced globally in a complex manner. Whether we're talking about sports broadcasts, your favourite reality show, the latest blockbuster film, or a book, all are likely to have been licensed on territorial basis.
can you really contain content on the internet?
Media rights are regularly sliced and diced globally in a complex manner. Whether we’re talking about sports broadcasts, your favourite reality show, the latest blockbuster film, or a book, all are likely to have been licensed on territorial basis. Geo-blocking is the key tool to enabling rights-holders to extract maximum commercial value by segregating digital rights territorially, but virtual private networks (VPNs) are often used to get around these virtual borders.
Horizon Scanner - Intellectual Property For Chinese Businesses - January 2026
LS Lewis Silkin More We have two things at our core: people – both ours and yours - and a focus on creativity, technology and innovation. Whether you are a fast growth start up or a large multinational business, we help you realise the potential in your people and navigate your strategic HR and legal issues, both nationally and internationally.
Horizon Scanner - Intellectual Property for Chinese Businesses - January 2026
We’re pleased to present you with the fifth edition of our IP Horizon Scanner for Chinese businesses, which highlights the key developments and anticipated changes over the coming months and their specific impact on Chinese businesses.
Patent Round Up Report 2025
Lewis Silkin are most popular: within Cannabis & Hemp, Law Practice Management and Criminal Law topic(s) with readers working within the Retail & Leisure industries "Far-fetched and utterly implausible" Novelty: G 1/23 – "Solar Cell" On 2nd July 2025 the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of the European Patent Office (EPO) released its decision in referral G 1/23, in which it had to consider the prior art effect of putting a complex nonreproducible product on the market.
A Guide To How Trade Marks Work In Formula One®
Abigail Wise I am a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney and advise a wide variety of clients on all aspects of UK and international trade mark law and practice. With over 17 years experience both in private practice and in-house, I regularly provide strategic IP advice to clients for the protection and enforcement of trade mark portfolios worldwide.
A Mark Of Progress? Getty v Stability AI's Impact On IP Infringement In The Age Of AI
Victoria Owrid’s articles from Lewis Silkin are most popular: within Intellectual Property topic(s) in United Kingdom with readers working within the Retail & Leisure and Law Firm industries Lewis Silkin are most popular: within Cannabis & Hemp, Law Practice Management and Privacy topic(s) Whilst some commentators have described the first major AI case in the UK as a 'damp squib', the mammoth judgment of Dame Joanna Smith is rich with legal interpretations relevant to both the creative...
A Mark of Progress? Getty v Stability AI's impact on IP infringement in the age of AI
Whilst some commentators have described the first major AI case in the UK as a 'damp squib', the mammoth judgment of Dame Joanna Smith is rich with legal interpretations relevant to both the creative industry and those engaged with generative AI.
UK IPO Launches Consultation On Standard Essential Patents
LS Lewis Silkin More We have two things at our core: people – both ours and yours - and a focus on creativity, technology and innovation. Whether you are a fast growth start up or a large multinational business, we help you realise the potential in your people and navigate your strategic HR and legal issues, both nationally and internationally.
Horizon Scanner - Intellectual Property For Chinese Businesses
Provisions of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCCA) which address copycat products have commenced operation, alongside new potential fines for non-compliance. In November 2024 the UK Supreme Court delivered judgment in Skykick v Sky clarifying the test for bad faith under UK trade mark law. We now await guidance from the UKIPO on how the decision will be implemented by trade mark examiners.
Nicholas Buckland
Nick is a Managing Associate in the Dispute Resolution team at Lewis Silkin, specialising in Intellectual Property disputes. He specialises in the protection, exploitation and enforcement across the range of intellectual property rights, including trade marks, copyright, patents, designs and confidential information.
Nicholas Buckland
Senior Associate, Lewis Silkin Nicholas is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team, specialising in Intellectual Property disputes. He specialises in the protection, exploitation and enforcement across the range of intellectual property rights, including trade marks, copyright, patents, designs and confidential information.
Sport and intellectual property - the year in review 2019/20
Wednesday, 01 July 2020 Author: Alex Kelham, Nicholas Buckland, Chris Rycroft, Victoria Owrid, Leonie Sheridan Intellectual property rights are at the heart of all sports business deals and as a result legal disputes and developments in the field are frequent and significant.
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