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Brexit and exhaustion of IP rights: are UK exporters collateral damage? Exhaustion of IP rights has always been a controversial topic, and Brexit has kept the issue on centre stage. The issue? Price differences between different national markets. On the one hand, IP rights holders want to protect national markets, maintain th...

Brexit and Geographical Indications You may not be familiar with the trade mark related term ‘geographical indication’ (GI). However, more than likely you have eaten a product protected by a GI: such as Parma Ham, Champagne and Roquefort cheese to name a few. GIs are protected by a number o...

Brexit's impact on the new P2B (Platform to Business) Regulation This month the UK Government published a Brexit SI amending the EU’s new Platform to Business Regulation to ensure the regulation works for a post Brexit (or more accurately, post transition period) UK. What is the Platform to Business Regulation (“P2B Re...

Brexit designs update As the end of the Brexit Transition Period nears, both the European Commission (EC) and UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) have released stakeholder notices in relation to the treatment of Registered Community Designs (RCDs) and Unregistered Communit...

Brexit and Loan Agreements The impact of Brexit on loan agreements has been fairly limited to date. However, as the end of the implementation period approaches, and the legal and commercial realities of Brexit are expected to be felt for the first time, is this view likely to ch...

How will the end of the Brexit implementation period impact eligibility for ECB collateral and the ECB purchase programmes? In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, central banks across the world set out a range of monetary stimulus packages. One such scheme is the European Central Bank’s Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (“PEPP”), aimed at supporting Eurozone monetary policy...

EU Trade Marks after the Brexit transition period It’s now less than 6 months until the end of the Brexit Transition Period. Both the European Commission (EC) and UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) have recently released stakeholder notices in relation to EU Trade Marks (EUTMs) from 1 January 2021. ...

Is your website Brexit ready? The recent publication by the European Commission of a number of updated Brexit stakeholder notices are a timely reminder for organisations to check that their websites will be ready in the event of a no-deal Brexit at the end of the transition period. Fo...

Brexit, tax and the fundamental freedoms With the chaos of COVID-19, it is easy to forget that the end of the Brexit transition period steadily approaches. As it stands, no binding deal has been agreed covering tax, and so companies will do well to dust off plans made for no-deal Brexit and cons...