Intellectual Property & Information
Legal protection for intangible creative, industrial, and digital assets, including statutory monopolies, data rights, and internet governance.
Inside this collection
Copyright & Fair Dealing
Originality benchmarks, protectable subject-matter, moral rights, statutory exceptions, and fair use balancing tests.
Patentability & Non-Obviousness
Patentable subject-matter exclusions, novelty, inventive step requirements, prior art, and patent infringement litigation.
Trademarks & Brand Infringement
Acquired distinctiveness, likelihood of confusion, trademark dilution, passing off, and parallel importation rules.
Trade Secrets & Confidentiality
Breach of confidence doctrine, commercial value requirements, reasonable secrecy steps, and non-disclosure obligations.
Data Protection & Privacy Compliance
Lawful processing bases, individual data subject rights, cross-border transfers, and GDPR enforcement jurisprudence.
Digital Platform Intermediaries
Platform safe harbors, notice-and-takedown frameworks, third-party user content moderation, and publisher liability.
Design Rights & Industrial Models
Protection of aesthetic industrial design, individual character criteria, registered vs unregistered design regimes.
Cross-Border IP Enforcement
Extraterritorial application of domestic IP rights, border seizure measures, and international anti-counterfeiting treaties.
Court decisions deserve
a closer reading.
We separate the factual record, the holding and editorial analysis. Jurisdiction and context matter.
Our approach