Member Articles

Contact: Nicola Rochon & Ben Evans; Blake Morgan (Southampton, England) A change will be implemented in relation to the EUIPO's interpretation of descriptions of goods and services. These changes could have a ...

Contact: Simon Stokes; Blake Morgan (Southampton, England) Background Just before Christmas political agreement was reached on the text of the new EU Trade Secrets Directive.  It is expected that the agreed t ...

Contact: Nicola Rochon This article was originally published on the Blake Morgan (Southampton, England) website. A positive change that will be brought into effect by the new regulations is the reduction in renewa ...

Contact: Ben Evans; Blake Morgan LLP (Southampton, England) The CJEU has ruled on whether a licensee of a Community Trade Mark ("CTM") needs to register the licence with the OHIM before they can bring an action for infr ...

Contact: Blake Morgan LLP (Southampton, England) The effect of the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 ("the Regulations") in the UK can be quite different from other jurisdictions which have implemen ...

Simon Stokes, a partner in Blake Morgan's (Southampton, England) Commercial team, specialising in digital rights law, looks at the big data revolution and why businesses need to focus on their IP and data privacy strateg ...