Fashionably IP
Episodes
The Dryrobe case: When is a trade mark generic? An interview with Theo Barclay
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview Theo Barclay of 4 New Square, who was the successful lead counsel for Dryrobe Limited, in the recent decision o...
The impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on online search in the fashion and beauty sectors
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the impact of Generative AI on online search and associated legal issues. The online search market has been stabl...
The UKIPO’s consultation on changes to UK design law and its possible impact on fashion designs
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Overview: Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview their HGF colleague Rachel Platts about the UKIPO’s consultation on proposed changes to UK design ...
Creativity and a designers freedom in EU Registered and Unregistered Designs: The Deity Shoes Advocate General Opinion
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the recent Opinion from Advocate General Emiliou in the Deity Shoes S.L. case. The case concerns whether fashion ...
Post-sale confusion following the Iconix/Dream Pairs decision: An interview with Simon Malynicz KC
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview barrister Simon Malynicz KC of Hogarth Chambers on the recent decision of the UK Supreme Court in the Iconix vs...
The Edwards vs Boohoo case and other notable fashion IP cases : an interview with Andrew Norris KC and Becky Knott
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview barristers Andrew Norris KC and Becky Knott of Hogarth Chambers on the recent Sonia Edwards vs Boohoo design ca...
Smell-a-like and dupe perfumes: an interview with Susanne Bilderbeek and Olivia Petter
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview their HGF colleagues Susanne Bilderbeek and Olivia Petter on smell-a-like perfumes and compare and contrast UK,...
The Fashion Law LLM and fashion IP cases past, present and future: an interview with Professor Johanna Gibson
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview Professor Johanna Gibson of Queen Mary University of London. We touch on the new Fashion Law LLM, the first fas...
Good practice in contentious proceedings before the UKIPO: an interview with barrister Victoria Jones
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview barrister Victoria Jones from the chambers 3PB in this edition of the Fashionably IP podcast on good practice i...
Who is the informed user in the world of UK and EU design law?
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview barrister Daniel Selmi of Three New Square in this edition of the Fashionably IP podcast on the concept of the ...
Honest concurrent use: what is all the fuss about in the world of fashion?
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the often misunderstood concept of honest concurrent use and fashion brands in the United Kingdom. What is the hi...
The Thom Browne/Adidas Decision: another battle of the stripes
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Curtis and Rebecca Field discuss the recent Thom Browne/Adidas decision of the English High Court concerning the battle of the three and four stri...
Fashion brands and non-use
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss non-use revocation actions and fashion brands in the United Kingdom and European Union. What constitutes use? Do ...
Copyright law and fashion
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the application of copyright to the world of fashion. Why is it harder to enforce copyright in fashion items in t...
The history of fashion intellectual property law in around fifteen minutes
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis provide a short history of fashion IP law. They discuss the differences between US, UK and EU fashion IP law and explain ...
Explaining fashion IP law via women’s shoes
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the IP rights applying to women’s shoes. Rebecca and Lee concentrate on probably the most famous women’s shoe...
Position trade marks in fashion
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss position trademarks in fashion. What are position trade marks and how easy or hard are they to register in the wo...
Explaining Fashion IP law via perfume
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the intellectual property rights which apply to perfume, why they are integral to the success of a fashion house ...
Explaining Fashion IP law via a piece of jewellery
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the intellectual property rights that apply to jewellery, some recent cases on the protection of jewellery under ...
Explaining Fashion IP law via a dress
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the intellectual property rights which apply to dresses and how dress design has moulded some of the IP rights th...
The day that Rihanna’s footwear inadvertently destroyed the novelty of a Community Design
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the recent decision of the General Court of the European Union, which upheld previous decisions of the EUIPO to c...
Explaining IP fashion law through the handbag
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss IP law in the fashion sector via a series of objects. The second object they will discuss is the handbag. What IP...
Explaining IP fashion law through the humble trainer or sneaker
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis start to discuss IP law in the fashion sector via a series of objects. The first object they will discuss is the humble t...
The impact of exhaustion of rights on IP in the world of fashion
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the impact of exhaustion of rights on intellectual property law in the world of fashion. The exhaustion of IP r...
The impact of artificial intelligence on IP in fashion?
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The impact of artificial intelligence on IP in fashion? Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on intellectual pr...
The quiet luxury trend, what is it? And what is its impact of IP?
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview their HGF colleagues Lauren Somers and Emma Pallister on the quiet luxury trend in fashion and what impact does...
Eighteenth edition: How to conduct a search for a fashion design in the UK and EU?
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview their HGF colleague Suzan Moss on searching for fashion designs in the UK and EU. What IP rights do you have to...
Impact of Brexit on design and trade mark rights in the world of fashion
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There is a lingering impact of Brexit on design and trade mark rights in the world of fashion. You might have thought that Brexit no longer has an imp...
Parody Fashion Brands: Trade Mark Law Perspective Across the US, UK, and EU
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Series 3, Episode 4 of HGF’s Fashionably IP podcast. In this podcast we talk about parody fashion brands and whether there are any differ...
Series 3, Episode 3: ‘Quirky’ aspects of UK and EU trade mark practice
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is the final in a series of three podcasts on key aspects of trade mark protection in the UK and EU. We talk about two ‘quirky’ aspec...
Series 3 Episode 2: Decorative use of trade marks in the world of fashion
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is the second in a series of three podcasts on key aspects of trade mark protection in the UK and EU. We talk about the decorative use of...
Series 3 Episode 1: Goodwill with a fashion spin featuring a special guest!
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode in series 3 of HGF’s Fashionably IP podcast. This podcast is the first in a series of three podcasts on key aspects of ...
Series 2 Episode 3: The important points of registering designs in the UK and EU
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode 3 of our second series of HGF’s Fashionably IP podcast. This podcast is the final podcast in a series of three podcasts on key as...
Series 2 Episode 2: Novelty and infringement of UK and EU Unregistered and Registered Design Rights.
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Timestamps:2:39 - Novelty and the scope of infringement rights.3:33- What is the test for novelty?6:07 - What is the test for infringement for registe...
Series 2 episode 1 - Disclosure and its impact on unregistered and registered design protection
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Series 2 Episode 1 of HGF's Fashionably IP Podcast. In this episode we will be talking about disclosure and its impact of unregistered...
New beginnings in the form of recycling, upcycling and resale in the world of fashion.
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the ninth edition of HGF’s Fashionably IP podcast in the spirit of the new year and new beginnings or at least recycled beginnings, we are going ...
Christmas, Fashion & IP – is it all Jingle Bells?
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the eighth edition of HGF's Fashionably IP Podcast, we are doing something different to what we have done with our previous podcasts and have ...
Protection of shape trade marks in fashion
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the seventh edition of HGF's Fashionably IP Podcast, we discuss the protection of shape trade marks in the world of fashion. Our discussion ce...
Geographical terms and their protection in fashion
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this sixth podcast, we discuss the protection of geographical terms in the world of fashion. An emotive subject for businesses and countries alike....
Trade mark rights protecting fashion designs
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our fifth podcast we talk about trade mark rights protecting fashion designs. Design and copyright may be of obvious use, but what about trade mark...
Zombie Fashion Brands
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our fourth podcast we talk about heritage brands in fashion or brands which are sometimes unfairly called zombie brands. Can zombie fashion brands ...
Trade marks which are fashion products, and fashion products which are trade marks
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our third podcast, we talk about the issue of protecting trade marks when they are the fashion product itself.An intro to HGF and the podcastThe is...
Colour in fashion and the difficulties of protecting it
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this second podcast, we are going to talk about the colour in fashion and the difficulties of protecting it.
Personal names as ‘brands’ in the world of fashion
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this first podcast, we are going to talk about the use of personal names as ‘brands’ and why this is an important subject in the world of fashi...