The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has recently launched a new service called Trade Mark Pre-Apply. This is a new online tool which uses AI powered checks and searches to help people who have not applied for a trade mark before and who have little or no knowledge of the application process, to improve their chances of successfully registering a trade mark. The aim for the UKIPO is to bring some cost and resource saving…
Baker McKenzie’s Global Capital Markets Practice Group released new IPO figures from the technology sector which show that 2017 has got off to a very strong start with 103 companies taking to the markets raising USD 12.1 billion. This is in stark contrast to 2016, when across the year, only USD 11 billion in capital was raised from 123 issuances, the majority of activity coming in the second half of the year.Activity centres around three…