Legal notices
1.
Whites IP Ltd is a company registered in England & Wales with
Company Registration Number 5412295. We are regulated by the
Intellectual Property Regulation Board (IPREG), the Chartered
Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) and the European Patent
Institute (EPI). Whites IP Ltd has legal professional liability
insurance with Pamia Ltd.
2. Whites IP Ltd is the owner of the registered
European registered trade mark "Whites ", which is registered for
all EU countries and has the registration number
010506327.
Whites IP Ltd is also the owner of this website.
All rights are reserved. These rights include the copyright in the
website and various copyright works within it, as well as
associated moral rights. All such rights are
maintained.
3. The information provided on this web-site
does not consitute legal advice of any kind. We cannot guarantee
that it is accurate. Indeed it may occasionally be out of date and
may include errors or ommissions. Please contact us if you require
any specific legal advice.
4.
Do not contact us if you wish to market products/services that we
have not requested from you. We do not respond to unsolicited
approaches and reserve the right to take legal action if such
approaches continue. Cold calling is not permitted. Please also
note that we are a small practice do not recruit. Thus please
do not send CVs or job applications.
5. Martin White is the Managing Director of
Whites IP Ltd. He is entitled to sign documents on behalf of the
company and is a Chartered Patent Attorney, a European Patent
Attorney and a registered EU and UK Trade Mark
Attorney.
6. If you contact us by e-mail please note that
we can give no absolute guarantee of a reply. We may for example be
attending to other matters or away from the office. Furthermore,
e-mail communications may sometimes be filtered out by anti-virus
software and we may not receive them. We may also be out of the
office on occasion. If matters are urgent or important, please
telephone us.
7. Legal notifications should be sent to us by
registered mail with advice of delivery.
8. We can give no guarantee of obtaining patent,
trade mark or design protection. Much will ultimately depend on an
examiner (unless a successful appeal is
filed). Futhermore, even if such protection is obtained,
there is no guarantee of freedom to use, make, sell or use a given
product, process, design or brand. Much here will depend on whether
or not others have dominating rights in the relevant
country/countries.
9.
It is possible for specialist searchers to perform searches prior
to filing (usually known as "prior art" or "validity" searches) and
thento have them analysed professionally to assess the chances of
obtaining valid patent, trade mark or design protection.
However all such searches have limitations. Thus, none can be
considered comprehensive.
10. It is also possible to have different
searches performed and analysed that are sometimes known as
"product clearance" or "freedom to operate" ("FTO") searches. These
are intended to identify rights held by others so that risks of
infringement can be assessed. They are however again limited in
nature and should not be considered comprehensive. Thus, they can
be used to reduce risk, but do not eliminate it.