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Welcome to Withers & Rogers news. This section is broken down into three headings:- intellectual property news in general which looks at major IP changes and trends in particular countries, territories or indeed across the world in general; industry news and case law which concentrates on particular sectors and key decisions in law and their probable implication for our clients; and W&R news, a look at things that are going on at our firm.

For those who want to trace back news stories over a longer period of time, there is an archive section structured in the same way.

Most recent news stories

• CJEU gets Bullish: filling of packaging does not amount to trade mark infringement | 30th January, 2012

  In the recent decision of Frisdranken Industrie Winters BV v Red Bull GmbH, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) confirmed that the act of filling packaging which bears a potentially infringing trade mark does not constitute &ld...more...

• Fast-Track your US Patent Applications | 20th January, 2012

  In late 2010 in Munich I bumped into Bob Stoll, then Commissioner for Patents at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).   He told me that he was in the process of creating a three-track patent examination process at the USPTO to ...more...

• The introduction of new generic top-level domain names will require increased vigilance from brand owners | 10th January, 2012

  From 12 January to 12 April 2012 the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will be accepting applications for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs). more...

• Is your IP deal-ready? | 20th December, 2011

  A number of factors have contributed to a growing trend for private business owners to consider selling all or part of their companies, whether it is financial difficulties, the need to off-load non-core assets or for reasons of succession.   more...

• Government announcement of IP support for SMEs | 9th December, 2011

  Commenting on a Government announcement about plans to provide a package of IP support to SMEs, Karl Barnfather, partner and patent attorney at Withers & Rogers, said: more...