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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...

Today, the way in which you portray yourself online is a direct reflection of the services that you provide and, ultimately, the way you do business. It is incredibly important, then, that your online presence is optimised.

In order to perform this all-important task, you have to choose what you upload to the internet carefully. You have to be willing to accept helpfrom those who know what it takes to transform a business’s online fortunes, too. Below are some points on how you can optimiseyour business’ online presence.

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