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Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen a number of high profile stars of the sports world come out and express publicly their mental health challenges. We saw US Gymnastic Simone Biles pull out of the olympics to ‘prioritise her mental health’. Tyrone Mings said he was...
Raising Finance For Buying A Business in Leicester - A guest blog by James Blacklaws of JB Commercial Finance Once you have made the decision to purchase a business, your next question probably turns to practicalities- how do you make it happen? A major part of this...
The media have picked up on a proposed Government consultation which would consider whether flexible working would become the default option unless there are good reasons not to (a proposal originally set out in the Conservative Party's 2019 election manifesto and...
Steven Mather Solicitor was recently instructed in respect of a Trade Mark Opposition that a client had received. Here’s the background, what happened and how we successfully managed to resolve the matter to the client’s satisfaction. Our client, Multipoint Lock Shop...
UPDATED: 5th August 2021 The post below was originally written in June 2021. We now have the Judgment in from the High Court and Glebe Farm have been successful (as I predicted below) in defending the claim by Oatly. The judge found that there is no likelihood of...
The Court of Appeal has reiterated the principle that where a person signs a contract in their own name and with no qualification as to the capacity in which they sign, they will be a party to the contract - that is personally. A contract for the sale of a Ferrari...
We’re told that Coronavirus CoVid-19 not only causes problems when you have it, but can cause a multitude of symptoms months later. Known as Long Covid, it’s becoming a plague of malaise for workers throughout the country and it’s impacting a lot of businesses. The...
On Monday 26th April 2021 I’m doing a webinar live stream as it’s World Intellectual Property Day. It’s free and will be live-streamed to my Facebook and YouTube. It’s at 12 noon online. Here’s the links you’ll need: YouTube:...
All over the news yesterday has the story that Marks and Spencer have filed court papers suing Aldi for trademark infringement and passing off over M&S's Colin and Connie the Caterpillar. It was very widely reported and went viral on social media. Here's the BBC...
The phrase “one more thing” has become almost synonymous with Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, used at its product launches since 1998. And so when Swatch sought to register SWATCH ONE MORE THING and ONE MORE THING as a trademark, Apple objected. The Trademark which...
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