Archive | Intellectual Property

25 April 2012 ~ 0 Comments

World IP Day: Are you protecting what’s yours?

Thursday 26th April is World IP Day and we’re drawing attention to the value Intellectual Property Rights can have for your business.
World IP day celebrates innovation and creativity and was launched on 26th April 1970 the same day that the world intellectual property organisation was founded.
“Intellectual Property Rights (IPR’s) covering patents, trademarks, designs and copyright [...]

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16 September 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Successful presentation at Best of Chester Event

Hillyer McKeown are celebrating after a productive evening delivering a presentation to Best of Chester members.

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01 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Client builds successful business after turning down BBC ‘dragons’

The fact that Paul Ward and his co-Directors turned down a £100,000 investment offer from James Caan on the BBC’s Dragons Den programme, demonstrates the belief that they’ve had in their business, Paragon PE, since it launched in March 2009.
This wasn’t a ‘quick route to success’ story. Before launching the company Paul studied Chemistry and [...]

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29 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

BT ordered to block links to Newzbin 2 website

A High Court judge has ruled that BT must block access to a website which provides links to pirated movies.
Newzbin 2 is a members-only site which aggregates a large amount of the illegally copied material found on Usenet discussion forums.
The landmark case is the first time that an ISP has been ordered to block access [...]

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18 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Intellectual Property Office publish reports on value of products protected by IP

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has published two commissioned reports, The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in the UK Market Sector and Film, Television & Radio, Books, Music and Art: UK Investment in Artistic Originals, which show the value of investments made by businesses in products and services that are protected by intellectual property (IP) [...]

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