Many Internet retailers endure the frustration of seeing potential customers diverted to unconnected websites with confusingly similar names. As a case concerning a Scottish haggis manufacturer showed, however, resolving such issues is all in a day’s work for an intellectual property lawyer. Since it was
Before naming your business or registering an Internet domain name it always pays to seek professional advice in order to avoid confusion and to ensure that you are not breaching anyone else’s rights. A restaurateur found that out to his cost after he christened his
The Internet is proverbially shark-infested and there are many who use it to prey on goodwill that others have painstakingly built up. However, as a High Court case showed, judges are alert to the problem and, with the right legal advice, victims can achieve full
Affiliation to a respected trade association is a boon to any business and provides reassurance to the buying public. A recent Court of Appeal case shed light on the extent to which businesses bear responsibility for out-of-date references to membership of a trade association. A
