Brexit and Brands Part 4
Photo c/o @AARCS_Canada As the Brexit [excitement/disaster/debacle - readers can pick their preferred option] starts to heat up, the IPKat has an update from Darren Meale who has been closely following the countdown to "B-day". Over to Darren: Following Rosie’s post here , the following is an update on my countdown to Brexit from the brands perspective, last written about at the T-266 days point . We don’t know that “no deal” will happen, but it seems a whole lot more likely than it did when I wrote my first 680 days to Brexit post. Sigh. If there is a “deal”, things should play out as I described here , although there’s plenty of detail lacking on that. If there is “no deal”, the UK government says it will deal with trade marks and designs as set out in this notice . Exhaustion of IP rights is dealt with in this notice and copyright (not discussed further here) is covered in this one . Geographical indications (also not discussed further here) are covered in anothe...