Say you were the one who invented a cure for something massively important. This cure would potentially turn the health of our planet up to a far better standard than ever before. Would you really want to sell that?

This is an article about the French luggage company. I write from the trademark perspective!

…She wasn't a sales person, she was a highly CREATIVE (not shouting) person, and so she and her husband found someone to sell it on their behalf….

…I do so because there is a Chinese car manufacturer, ORA, that has revealed a »new« car that is in actual fact a carbon copy, more or less….

It is so funny, I thought at the time when I designed my first trade mark that it was the only one I’d ever want or indeed need…

The serious stuff is where it gets - well serious - not least because they are created with neural networks, requiring digital forensics or special machines to detect these videos. This intensifies the issue of how to detect the fake video then, or even if someone is a victim of this how do they prove that it indeed is a fake video?

Apparently Mr. Fortnum was a footman in the household of Queen Anne, one of my favourite queens as you might remember because of the Statute of Anne, and he was an enterprising type of person because he saw that there was a lot of half used wax candles that he might turn a profit from selling, since there was an insistence from the Royal family of new candles every night.

hen her mother passed away she lived with an aunt as a servant. Or so she wanted us to think. She made up many stories to glorify herself. You might also think that Adrienne was her sister. Not true. She was a favourite aunt and friend of Coco's. Coco’s sister was called Julia or Julia-Berthe.  

This article is related to the Danish version of the Dragon’s Den and in Danish is the Lion’s Den.

The Danish version of The Lions Dragons Den is The Lions Den, has recently seen the use of the former King Frederik IX’s name and likening. The person in question claimed to have been given full permission….

Update to the 2015 survey related to ownership of IP for businesses - new article

As you know I wrote about this in an article here on my website. Here’s an update that breaks numbers down in further detail. To me, despite the fact that the subject is rather dry, it’s extremely exiting to read this.

This article relates to the evolution of my first trademark GRAND IPR.

It took me a while to accept the name, and once I did I was very careful with how I wanted it represented

As we all know BANKSY - street-art artist - from the UK is VERY protective of his IDENTITY - I kinda get that. We also know, more or less, of his scorn for INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, however this has come back to BITE him on the bum as it were. 

I know that you are all fed up with BREXIT, however now that we have left the EU, this is crucial to take into account. I wrote this a while ago and am sharing it with you now in the hope you’ll find value in it.

This article relates to a situation where certain people were wanting to apply for trademarks that they ought not to have applied for in the first case.

Those of you who know me will spot the reason why I, personally, find this case odd.

Whenever you are hit by inspiration as a creative or an innovative person, you are in fact creating something that you may perceive as "just" something you created perhaps….

This article is in reality an excerpt from my book, the one you see in the image. It explains the difference between trademarks and service marks.