Last month, we held our annual Style Gallery, our pop up shopping and styling event for luxury brands. Click here for the video highlights from what was a fantastic evening showcasing a range of luxury brands.
In this edition of Brand Matters, we report on a number of developments relating to IP matters, including the UKIPO confirming that the UK+ exhaustion regime – whereby IP rights are exhausted when relevant goods are put on the market in the EEA, allowing those goods to be parallel traded into the UK – will continue to apply, on a permanent basis. Many rights holders will welcome the certainty this brings to existing supply chain processes.  We also report on the changes now in effect in the EU relating to design law and practice (with the UK expected to consult on its own design regime later this year), and some other changes on the horizon of interest to trade mark owners.
Brand owners will be alive to the risk of cyber attacks, and will have been concerned at recent developments targeting UK retailers' operations. Our Cyber Risk and Investigations team have written a report detailing the immediate and longer-term steps that organisations can take.  They will also be hosting a webinar on 11 June.
Lastly, we were thrilled to win UK Trade Mark Litigation Team of the Year at Managing IP's EMEA awards in April and I'd like to take this opportunity also to congratulate a member of our team, Associate Dominic Walsh, who won the UK award for Rising Star, which is a fantastic achievement, well done Dom!
I hope you enjoy reading this edition. If you have any questions arising out of any of the articles, please reach out to me, the author or your usual Mishcon contact.