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An Exeter law firm has taken another step in the battle against plastic pollution by working with one of the South West’s brightest community interest companies, Beach Guardian.

Stephens Scown LLP signed up to the Plastic Free Exeter pledge in late 2018 and has been taking action to cut down on its plastic use since then. This has included arranging a plastic collection along Exeter’s Quay, collecting all the plastic used in one week to assess where it comes from and looking at ways to reduce this as part of the firm’s ‘Giving Back’ program.

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A leading South West law firm has revealed that it has a 93% success rate for trade mark filings.

The intellectual property team at Stephens Scown LLP has filed hundreds of trade marks for clients in the South West and beyond, in a number of sectors including food and drink, leisure, fashion, consumer goods, motorsport and technology. Its 93% success rate covers trade marks filed in the UK and EU from April 2017 to April 2018.

“Registering a trade mark is an important step in protecting a business’s brand, which is often its most valuable asset. It can also be leveraged...

What exactly is trading?

Trading refers to the trading of securities in order to pursue a certain profit intention. There are different forms of trading, such as day trading, swing trading, online trading, forex trading (trading with currencies) and position trading. Most of them take place on the stock exchange, but can also be executed via other institutions ("over the counter"), in short otc. A security is a deed that evidences a certain private right; this is the only way the respective right can be asserted. These include currencies, equities, warrants, CFDs, bonds, futures...

In some respects, the driverless vehicle revolution remains some way from realising its full potential and impacting on the consumer mainstream. At the heart of this is the relatively fledgling nature of the technology, with autonomous test vehicles and pioneers such as Uber having previously been involved in high profile fatalities .

However, given the level of investment that major tech brands have made in autonomous vehicle technology, it seems inevitable that driverless cars will eventually take over the global auto industry while also revolutionising the private vehicle hire...