Bristows' Brands, Designs & Copyright - Introduction to podcast series

Bristows' Brands, Designs & Copyright group introduce our upcoming publications - Trade Marks Review of the Year and Designs & Copyright Review of the Year.  Toby Headdon, Abbie Wise and Stephanie Taylor talk through why we're changing the format of our launch to a podcast series as well as case law and developments we will cover.Trade mark cases include:Louis Vuitton's checkerboard pattern - distinctive character in trade marks and burden of proof on third parties easyGroup's challenge to a Columbian airline EASYFLYCan a claim be served out of jurisdiction? Monster Energy's opposition to Robot Energy appli-cation for HYBRID - the analysis of bad faith Planet Art's challenge to Photobox - weak distinctive character and trade mark infringementWhat brand owners should consider following BrexitDesign and copyright cases include:How the UK responded to the CJEU’s seminal decision in Cofemel which concerns what con-stitutes a copyright ‘work’ and whether a requirement of aesthetic appeal is permissibleThe CJEU’s decision in the Brompton Bike case, concerning whether copyright can protect shapes which are necessary to achieve a technical resultA UK court decision which revisited unregistered design right protection of clothing (and in par-ticular, a pair of figure-hugging jeans)A Court of Appeal decision involving rights in commercially valuable sports dataA CJEU decision involving performers’ and producers’ rights to compensation when their sound recordings are played in public in the EUThe effects of Brexit regarding design rights, copyright and database rights