Business

A previous blog reported the problems of getting the whole of the EU to agree how many languages patent applications should be translated in to. The official languages of the...

Recent publicity surrounding the discovery that Apple’s iPhone keeps a record of where you go – possibly for up to a year – and then saves a copy to your...

With another successful series of ‘Dragons Den’ (Series 9 BBC 2) now complete, I do think about what there is left to be invented, mainly so I can retire early… ...

The use of guarantees in everyday business life is common place. The type of guarantees vary, such as directors or shareholders guaranteeing the debts of a company (a personal guarantee)...

At this time of the year when the cold weather and dark evenings are becoming tiresome, a lot of us are considering where we can go for some reliable sunshine....

It is very common to see obligations in a contract qualified through the use of endeavours clauses – with ‘best endeavours’ being the most stringent, ‘reasonable endeavours’ the least and...

The producers of X Factor revealed at the start of this month that Simco Ltd was withdrawing its application to register a trade mark for the name of girl group Rhythmix....

(Don't Stop Believing…) I blogged previously on how the Patents County Court (PCC) was finding its feet in the Westwood v Knight case. In Comic Enterprises Ltd v Twentieth Century Fox Corp, the PCC had to...

Gordon Brown became Prime Minister without facing an election. On 6 May 2010 he had no choice but to go to the polls. He failed to secure a majority and...