Bristows' Brands, Designs & Copyright group introduce our upcoming publications - Trade Marks Review of the Year and Designs & Copyright Review of the Year. 

Toby Headdon, Abbie Wise and Stephanie Taylor talk through why we're changing the format of our launch to a podcast series as well as case law and developments we will cover.

Trade mark cases include:

• Louis Vuitton's checkerboard pattern - distinctive character in trade marks and burden of proof on third parties easyGroup's challenge to a Columbian airline EASYFLY
• Can a claim be served out of jurisdiction? Monster Energy's opposition to Robot Energy appli-cation for HYBRID - the analysis of bad faith 
• Planet Art's challenge to Photobox - weak distinctive character and trade mark infringement
• What brand owners should consider following Brexit

Design and copyright cases include:

• How the UK responded to the CJEU’s seminal decision in Cofemel which concerns what con-stitutes a copyright ‘work’ and whether a requirement of aesthetic appeal is permissible
• The CJEU’s decision in the Brompton Bike case, concerning whether copyright can protect shapes which are necessary to achieve a technical result
• A UK court decision which revisited unregistered design right protection of clothing (and in par-ticular, a pair of figure-hugging jeans)
• A Court of Appeal decision involving rights in commercially valuable sports data
• A CJEU decision involving performers’ and producers’ rights to compensation when their sound recordings are played in public in the EU
• The effects of Brexit regarding design rights, copyright and database rights