Dawn Ellmore Employment has recently finalised its annual salary guide and, in what has undoubtedly been a challenging year for the Intellectual Property profession, we are pleased to be able to report that the IP and Legal markets remain buoyant, with many new opportunities continuing to become available.

Our research shows that salaries have remained strong despite the difficult market conditions, with most positions being offered with an increased starting salary compared to the 2020 figures. …

Whilst we can’t go very far from our homes at the moment, some recent US patent activity relating to Disney’s Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser hotel has allowed us to imagine a time when we will be able to take our holidays in a galaxy far, far away. In this article, Dawn Ellmore Employment reviews the patents that highlight some of the technology that will be used to create an immersive experience for visitors, and what it will mean for future holidays at the Galactic Starcruiser hotel.

What we already know about the Galactic Starcruiser hotel

Due to open in late…

The South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai has, in the past, been seen as lagging somewhat behind its rivals in terms of its ability to embrace emerging technologies. Its more recent activities suggest that the company is addressing this, and could in fact soon be a market leading tech innovator. In this article, Dawn Ellmore Employment reviews the company’s activities as they push into the tech space.

Electric vehicles and other hi-tech markets in Hyundai’s field of vision

Hyundai is the world’s fifth largest car manufacturer, and has already developed the Ioniq range of battery electric vehicles. The company is set…

In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and four of his Harvard roommates launched a social networking service which they named “TheFacebook”. Facebook is a name which has become synonymous with the social media age, and on the anniversary of the service’s launch we take a look into Zuckerberg’s background, and how he developed from a programming prodigy to the world’s youngest self-made billionaire.

First steps in coding

Zuckerberg was taught Atari BASIC programming by his father Edward, a dentist. When it became obvious that he had a talent in this area his parents found him a tutor to develop his skills…

The latest salary research for the whole of the Intellectual Property profession in the UK, conducted by Dawn Ellmore Employment, has been released. It shows good news for workers across the Intellectual Property sector, with steady increases in basic salaries for fee earners and support staff alike, with the growth in the London market being replicated in the regions.

Patent Attorneys, Trade Mark Attorneys and Intellectual Property Solicitors

Salaries for Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys were found to have increased slightly across the board when compared to the 2019 figures. We found that Part Qualified Patent Attorneys could gain a…

Ever since Keeping Up With The Kardashians burst onto our screens in 2007, Kris Jenner and the rest of the Kardashian/Jenner family have been working hard to make sure their names stay in the limelight. Central to this is an uncompromising trade mark filing policy, intended to protect anything they consider to fall under their personal branding, and including some interesting applications and disputes.

Whilst some of these trade marks relate to legitimate business interests, such as clothing lines and beauty brands and, it seems that one family member or another is never very far from a trade mark related…

The recent death of Larry Tesler, the computer scientist who created the “cut, copy and paste” functions used so often in offices throughout the world on a daily basis, lead us to reflect on other innovations that we take for granted but make our everyday working life easier.

It was whilst Tesler was working for Xerox at their Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s that he developed the “cut, copy and paste” functionality, which he based on the method of physically cutting out sections of text and then gluing that text into a new position. …

Cast your minds back to 1997: Tony Blair led the Labour party to a landslide election victory, Manchester United were crowned Premier League champions for the second successive season, and MmmBop and Barbie Girl were dominating the airwaves. It was also the year in which Swedish fashion retailer H&M attracted the attention of adidas after releasing its “Work Out” series of sports clothing, bearing two parallel stripes on t-shirt sleeves and trouser legs.

Trade mark infringement proceedings were initiated in the Netherlands in 1998, with adidas relying on Benelux trade mark registrations to assert that the use of stripes on…