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COVID-19 has changed the commercial leasing landscape, at least for the foreseeable future. It’s critical that tenants and landlords remain on top of legislative changes. As it stands, subject to meeting certain eligibility criteria, the Retail & Other Commercial Leases (COVID-19) Regulation 2020 (‘Covid-19 Regulation’) stipulates that termination or repossession for failure to pay rent…
Protecting your brand through trade mark registration and timely opposition to the registration of trade marks that are substantially identical or deceptively similar to yours enables you to pre-empt situations such as this before they become a problem. The lesson to be learned from this McDonald’s v Hungry Jacks IP stoush is that proactive brand…
