The Olympic Flame passed the offices of Waterfront only yesterday…
Tonight, Londoners and the rest of the World celebrate the opening of the Olympic Games with the official opening ceremony…the excitement is rising, just as much as the temperature this week! However, some people are now realising that the Olympics are not as “open” to business as they would like! For instance, even the Middletons (the family of our newest Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton) have fallen foul of Games organisers and their strict policing of all things “Olympic”. The Middletons were asked to change their party products website by LOCOG lawyers after problems were found with the promotion of goods associated with the Games. Did the Middletons not read my blogs back in March? In those posts, I discussed the trademark issues affecting businesses ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games. By way of a re-cap for all those who are thinking about taking advantage of the Games in the coming weeks, here are links to my previous blogs:
If you’re looking to capitalise on the Games, talk to one of our intellectual property lawyers today to make sure you don’t end up going down in Olympic flames.
A recent EU trade mark application for the word mark, PUT PUTIN IN, has been refused by the European Union Intellectual Property Office on the grounds of being contrary to public policy or to accepted principles of morality. While a fairly straightforward decision, this is a timely reminder…
Late yesterday UK time, it was reported that a lawyer for Twitter had sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg complaining about Meta’s new Threads app. Twitter claimed that it “has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (Meta) has engaged in systematic, wilful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property”.