Ansons has joined forces with Women in Business NI and is offering a Masterclass entitled 'Intellectual Property – What, When, Where and Why?' on Tuesday, 22nd November 2016 from 9:30am to 12 noon at La Mon, Belfast. Anyone involved in bringing products to market will find this event of relevance. [...]

As you are now aware, the United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union. Don’t panic! The first point is that today it is business as usual and the owners of Intellectual Property should not panic. European Union Trade Marks and Registered Community Designs remain valid in the UK [...]

Jonathan White will attend the upcoming epi Litigation Committee Meeting being held in Munich from 7th to 8th April 2016. The meeting will be attended by professional representatives drawn from across Europe and a number of important topics will be discussed, including the proposed Trade Secrets Directive. Jonathan will also [...]

Background Comic Enterprises Limited (CEL) operate live entertainment venues across the UK under the Trade Marks Glee and The Glee Club and have been in business since 1994. CEL also own registrations for a series of two trade marks which contain Glee, since 2001. Twentieth Century Fox (Fox ) produce [...]

Ansons’ Trade Mark Attorneys work hard to keep abreast of current practise and case law. Cliff Kennedy and Cherrie Stewart attended the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys’ Spring Conference in London from 16th - 18th March 2016. With a theme of “History and Heritage” the topics presented ranged from PGI’s [...]

On 09th March 2016, Ansons’ Trade Mark Attorney, Cherrie Stewart presented a seminar to budding entrepreneurs on the Belfast Enterprise Academy programme. The programme, funded by Belfast City Council, aids the participants, who are students drawn from Queen’s, University of Ulster and Belfast Met, to develop viable business ideas and [...]

In accordance with the new Regulation (EU) No. 2015/2424 of the European Parliament and the Council amending the Community trade mark regulation (EUTMR Regulation), which was enacted in December 2015, the EU Trade Mark System is being reformed and revised and certain changes to the system will be introduced with [...]

Ansons, in partnership with EY Tax, offers a free breakfast seminar: Date: Thursday, 15th October 2015 Time: 08:30 - Registration, 09:00am - Presentation starts, 10:00am - Close Venue: EY, Bedford House, Bedford Street, Belfast, BT2 7DT Please join us for breakfast followed by a discussion, led by EY Tax and [...]

The patent landscape in Europe is set to change dramatically with the introduction of the Unitary European Patent and Unified Patent Court (UPC). The various working groups of the UPC Preparatory Committee, together with national patent offices, are continuing to work out details of the rules for Europe’s new patent [...]