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Confidential Information  This brochure explains when information is considered confidential at law, the different ways that confidential information may be received by a person, describes the nature of information that is protected by the law in the UK, remedies available to persons holders of confidential information in the United Kingdom and methods for calculating damages caused by misuse of confidential information.
    
Intellectual Property Rights  An overview of each of the major areas of intellectual property law, including copyright, patents, registered and unregistered designs, and confidential information.
    
Protecting Business Ideas  An outline of the application of the law as it may apply to businesses wishing to protect new ideas to apply in a business. The application of confidential information, patent law, copyright, trade marks and designs law are considered.
    
Counterfeit Goods  A synopsis of the law applying to counterfeit goods in the United Kingdom, including the powers of Customs to seize goods, the potentially applicable areas of intellectual property law, criminal offences and strategies used to avoid liability.
    
Unregistered Designs  An outline of Design Right as it exists in English Law. Design right applies to protect designs both in the UK and European Union.
    
Copyright  Copyright is one of the most common forms of intellectual property, which protects the fine arts, such as software, written works, photographs, film and sound recordings. In this information sheet we lay a ground work to appreciate the scope of copyright law in the UK.
    
Passing Off  Goodwill is the attractive force that customers experience to buy from a business. Goodwill may manifests itself in an array of ways - other businesses are not entitled to represent themselves, both directly and indirectly as having the goodwill of another. This is the essence of what passing off protects. This information sheet explains the application of the law of passing off in the UK.
    
Registered Trade Marks  Registered trade marks protect signs that are distinctive of a business, whether it is a trade name, product name, name of a service, logo or other qualifying sign.
    
Registered Designs  Registered designs protect features of shape and configuration, surface decoration and surface patterns. This information sheet sets out the qualification criterion for registered designs and the basis for infringement.
    
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