12 July 2016TrademarksFlip Petillion and Diego Noesen

Up for debate: the post-Brexit IP world

On June 23, 2016 the British population voted to leave the EU, albeit by a narrow majority, and there is a real possibility that the UK parliament will follow the result of the referendum and use article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to notify the EU of its desire to leave. Member states did not have an express right to withdraw from the EU until article 50 was introduced in 1992.

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