IP Insight

Edition 17, August 2008

Pitching with a safety net

If you lose a sales pitch your ideas might be used anyway, says Dids McDonald at Anti Copying in Design (ACID)

Going the Community route to IP protection

Identity theft is one of the preoccupations of the 21st Century, with growing concern that fraudsters may gain access to bank accounts and credit cards. The contents of a wallet picked from a London pocket one day, can be used the following day in Lisbon.

China IPR SME Helpdesk

Many European SMEs who operate within China experience counterfeiting and it can be a difficult issue to overcome. There are, however, a number of actions that you can undertake to protect your business from counterfeiting.

Resolving patent disputes: authoritative opinions from the UK-IPO

This is the one of a series of articles looking at the different ways in which patent disputes can be resolved. This article provides an introduction to the opinions service offered by the UK-Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO).

IP in the news

Intellectual Property related stories with an international flavour which has attracted media attention over the past month.

Your questions answered

Frequently asked questions about IP issues and strategies.