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A recent decision of the Outer House of the Court Session has highlighted the discretion provided to judges in the Scottish courts to withhold from a party a remedy to which, in ordinary circumstances, they would be entitled as a matter of course.
Where applicable, an individual or business can be afforded intellectual property protection for artistic creations under both the law of copyright and trade marks, but the distinctions of the two protections should be borne in mind, as Banksy has been finding out
Mr Blackledge’s case highlights the potential for serious damage to an individual’s life and reputation if there is a lack of effective remedy to what may become a common scenario.
The key considerations when writing to persons or companies who are infringing a trade mark/patent/design right.
The provenance of authentic Scottish produce has value in the global market. Scotch whisky, for example, is the world's top internationally traded spirit with exports worth almost £4bn annually. The case has yet to be determined but it raises the question of how we protect Scotland's domestic produce and what happens if someone tries to replicate a protected product elsewhere?