Intellectual property
The WTO faces a make or break week over vaccines | Larry Elliott
The ruling on whether or not to waive patent rules will this week show if the trade body is for the world or the west
Larry Elliott Economics editor
12, Jun, 2022 @10:04 AM
Aldi’s Cuthbert the Caterpillar is back – with a spring in his step
Lookalike cake that survived high court drama with Marks & Spencer’s Colin sidesteps royal jubilee
Zoe Wood
01, Jun, 2022 @11:37 AM
Affordable Covid drugs kept out of reach by sluggish WTO
Analysis: EU and US pharma giants’ intellectual property rights stop poorer countries accessing vital medication – despite WTO claims of progress
Phillip Inman
09, May, 2022 @1:45 PM
Dating app Muzmatch may have to change name after trademark row
Court rules app for Muslims infringed trademark of Match Group, US company behind Tinder and OkCupid
David Batty
20, Apr, 2022 @12:30 PM
‘Embarrassing’: Russia scrambles to copy banned social media platforms
Rossgram, a substitute for Instagram, mocked as Russian PM announces policy of ignoring copyright
Andrew Roth
30, Mar, 2022 @7:33 PM
Michael Molineaux obituary
Other lives: Intellectual property lawyer from New Zealand who settled in the UK
Yvonne Madawela
24, Feb, 2022 @3:43 PM
Marks & Spencer and Aldi call truce in Colin the Caterpillar cake war
Supermarkets reach high court deal after M&S’s legal action against Aldi over rival Cuthbert cake
Sarah Butler
01, Feb, 2022 @5:54 PM
Government pauses plans to rewrite UK copyright laws after authors protest
Intellectual property rule changes were mooted in the wake of Brexit but have been shelved after warnings about how this could hit writers’ incomes
Alison Flood
19, Jan, 2022 @9:01 AM
Meghan to receive just £1 from Mail on Sunday for privacy invasion
Newspaper accepts defeat and will pay additional unspecified sum for infringing her copyright
Jim Waterson Media editor
05, Jan, 2022 @6:00 AM
Eric Clapton to waive legal costs against woman who attempted to sell single bootlegged CD
The artist’s management have issued a clarifying statement after the singer attracted criticism over the David v Goliath win
Kelly Burke
23, Dec, 2021 @5:39 AM
The Omicron variant reveals the true global danger of ‘vaccine apartheid’
Sharing vaccines with poorer countries is the right thing and the self-interested thing to do. The west needs to stop being so short-sighted
Larry Elliott
28, Nov, 2021 @11:10 AM
Museums v business: the growing market for cultural digitisation
As sales of licensed goods soars, battles loom over the use of works by long-dead artists
Georgina Quach
15, Nov, 2021 @6:00 AM
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