18 March 2022TrademarksTerry Green and Tegan Miller-McCormack

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Who would have thought that the children’s cartoon “Peppa Pig” would become something of a political magnet, including in the field of trademarks? Yet in the past few months, Peppa has had just as much screen time in the news as on a children’s TV channel.

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