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The whole notion of trademark, patent and domain name protection has become increasingly important. Protection is crucial in this entrepreneurial age when millions of enterprising people are setting up businesses and developing inventions and ideas — but it also opens the door to potential trademark scams.

A perpetual motion or over-unity device is a hypothetical machine that continues indefinitely without any outside intervention or external source of energy. It consists of a machine that, once set in motion, will continue in motion without ever stopping and without the influence of any further forces required to keep it going.

The Intellectual Property Law is changing to help businesses better protect their rights in the UK and abroad and to modernise certain aspects of the law.

With the Ice Bucket Challenge being the recent internet craze and most of the population taking part, it was no surprise when The ALS Association filed an application to obtain U.S. trademark registration

Protecting your business name and ideas is a must if you want to avoid other businesses and your competitors from stealing your identity, which is why getting these trademarked is important to your business.

Downing IP have been awarded ‘Patents Law Firm of the Year’ by Acquisition International magazine.

Infringing a patent means manufacturing, using, selling or importing a patented product or process without the patent owner’s permission. The owner of a patent can take legal action against you and claim damages if you infringe their patent.

Downing IP have been working on behalf of Med-El (Medical Electronics) supporting them with their patent applications in the European Patent Office and have recently nominated them for the European Inventor Award 2014.

A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol, logo or design, or a combination of these, used to identify and distinguish the goods or services of one person or organisation from those of others, or more importantly your competitors. Your trademark can be used as your marketing tool as this how others will recognise your products or services, it is your identity.

There is no legal requirement to register a Trade Mark but if you want to protect your brand we strongly recommend you Trade Mark your logo, symbol, design or words. By protecting your brand you are also protecting your identity and therefore differentiate from your competitors ensuring you stand out from the crowd.