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Legal Advice on Your iPhone: Silverman Sherliker Launches Mobile Trade Mark Search Service
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The Times was just one of the publications to report on our new on-the-move Intellectual Property service NameSearch TM Legal, through which businesses around the world are already consulting us on their trade mark and brand name matters.
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Tempted to Snap up a Bargain Business? An Employment Cautionary Tale…
This may be the right time for the opportunist. Struggling businesses up for grabs, cash strapped public authorities eager to outsource work. If you have or can raise the money, you may be able to bag a bargain.
Or so thought a recent after the event client. And thus began a very sorry tale, as Employment Partner Martin Donoghue explains…
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All Change (Again): Rebalancing the Licensing Act
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Theresa May, the Home Secretary, published a consultation paper on 28th July entitled, “Rebalancing the Licensing Act”. Whilst the consultation paper starts positively, acknowledging licensed premises working with the police to reduce alcohol-related harm and mentioning the achievements of Business Improvement Districts and Best Bar None, it goes on to make suggestions for improving the licensing system which will make most licensees’ toes curl.
Maria Guida, our Licensing and Property Partner, explains the latest proposed plans, which, if implemented could have a bigger impact than when the Licensing Act 2003 came into force, and in the shortest possible timeframe.
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Patently Absurd: Media Strike Warrior Pose over “Yoga Patents”
If you are one of the millions of people in the UK who practise yoga, you may have been particularly drawn to the reports in recent weeks. Throughout the newspapers, on the radio and on television, headlines cry and reporters wail: “India is trying to patent yoga positions!”
Tristan Sherliker and Dennis Lee take a deep breath, centre and unravel the facts behind the spin…
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When I’m 64…er 75…
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Pensions Partner (and Beatles fan) Jennie Kreser looks this month at some interesting recent developments on the pension front; in particular the issue of a consultation document by the Treasury on compulsory annuitisation by age 75.
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The War on Inheritance Tax: Wheeling out the Big Guns
A tax on inheritance was first introduced in 1796 in order to finance the war against Napoleon Bonaparte. Unfortunately for us taxpayers, taxes introduced in times of war have a habit of lingering in times of peace. But as Private Client Associate Andrew Kidd explains, there is a potential solution…
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Client Showcase: Advanced Health
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Each month we feature one of our clients. For some years, we have been advising Jane McCadden, Managing director at Advanced Health Limited, whose health and slimming innovations sell in numerous international markets.
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