With only a few more shopping days to go until the big day, we offer advice for brand owners and consumers on fake products. 

As founding signatories of the IP Inclusive Charter, Wynne-Jones asks several of its senior trainees what being IP inclusive means to them.

A senior trainee patent attorney at Wynne Jones IP is “delighted” to have taken on an influential regional role.

Millions of shoppers are set to flood high street and online retailers this week with the arrival of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The four-day period between November 24 and 27 is traditionally one of the busiest pre-Christmas shopping days in the calendar, with £5.8 billion spent in 2016. Around £2.8 billion of this was spent through online retailers – up 20 per cent from £2.3 billion in 2015, according to VoucherCodes.co.uk and the Centre for Retail Research (CRR). However, as shoppers head online to snap up the latest bargains, they could be leaving themselves vulnerable to purchasing counterfeit items.

Intellectual property rights infringement happens when a product, creation or invention protected by IP laws are exploited, copied or otherwise used without the permission of the legal owner of those rights. What can you do when you have been accused of infringing someone’s IP rights?

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