The Brexit “transition period” will come to an end on 31 December 2020, and from 1 January 2021, the United Kingdom will cease to follow EU rules. This brings significant changes to design law in the ...

If you live in the UK, Brexit has become like the British sky -- heavy, gray and gloomy. At least, that’s if you are part of the design community. “Ninety-seven percent of creative people in the UK ...

Sarah Wright and Kaisa Patsalides explore whether designs originating from the UK can still qualify for EU design rights in a post-Brexit world, in light of conflicting interpretations among EU courts ...

UK and European Commission reach broad agreement over Brexit transition EUTMs registered before end of transition will be mirrored with a comparable UK right Document paves way for establishment of ...

One out of every six people working in London is employed in the creative industries – that’s 900,000 talented individuals – making London the biggest creative economy of any major city in the world.

On June 23, UK voters will decide on a possible Brexit, or British exit, from the European Union. Among those that stand to be directly affected by the outcome of the vote are designers and ...

With the fallout from Brexit affecting everything from international trade to infrastructure, it was perhaps inevitable that Britain’s architecture and design schools would suffer as well. However, ...

Steve Rowan, divisional director of trademarks, tribunals and designs at the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO), explained yesterday at INTA’s Power of Design conference in London that the IPO had ...

As we noted in Are Design Patents Missing From Your IP Portfolio, a design patent protects the visual ornamental characteristics of an article and can be an important part of a company’s patent ...

ACID’s CEO Dids Macdonald speaks to Managing IP about copycat culture and concerns about design rights in the wake of Brexit Dids Macdonald began her career as an interior designer and later became a ...

The first dust has settled following the UK’s vote in favour of leaving the EU and one thing has become clear despite concerns about uncertainty: the impact on EU trademark and design law will be ...

The restriction of movement between people in the UK and countries in the European Union (EU) following Brexit has been a much-debated issue in the creative industries over the last year. While prime ...