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Ah the joys of Trademarking. It is a complicated subject with potentially disastrous or expensive consequences if you get it wrong, so if in any doubt, I would speak to a Trademark lawyer or specialist.

But, having gone through it a few times and had infringements, my fag packet advice would be, do you actually need it, before embarking down that road. 

If you're product or service is likely to be copied, replicated or plagiarised, it's more than likely to happen overseas where they won't recognise your trademark or just stick to fingers up when you try and pursue them. The EU I believe operates a cross EU Trademark, but not sure how that will work as we are leaving. But most counterfeiting or fraud will be Asian or East European based.

So do you have a product or service that actually needs to be trademarked. If you do, then you don't want any similar sounding competitors who were trademarked long before you arrived, otherwise any legal challenge in the future will be expensive. 

If your product or service is deemed valuable enough to need protection, then it's probably worth paying for some specialist advice and protect yourself as best as you can.

It could do if they are transmitting unencrypted, but I think they are filtered out by default.

You did decide to live near a bombing range  

I dunno, I think they've been pretty straight. It's been hard work navigating mixed messages over traders working though, advice does differ from Scot.gov to UK.gov

Is UK.gov UK advice or English advice? Can be a sensitive minefield to walk depending on peoples political or national leanings 

Is it me, but does the US Press briefing bear more resemblance to "show and tell" in reception year?

Regardless of your politics, do you think our daily Cornavirus briefings look very adult and professional compared to the circus over the pond?

I do enjoy listening to Trump's directionless rambling and self-appointed genius, whilst telling anyone to shut up who asks a difficult question. It's fun listening to him mispronounce the names of drugs, telling the world he's not a Doctor but understands everything really really well, and you should give some of this stuff a try. 

Meanwhile, in the UK we have to make do with boring facts, stats and charts, and the same daft questions from journalists, which are patiently answered day after day, whilst the nation comes together in a time of crisis. Let's face it after Brexit, it's quite refreshing!

We might be a little island, and have probably fallen out with most of our European neighbours, but I've never been happy to be British!

I didn't realise the takeaways were still open. Could be a Friday treat, if I can find somewhere...mmmm dominoes  

I would imagine most infections and deaths are unreported and the true picture will emerge. I wouldn't take any government stats seriously.

We know in the UK reported cases is only a finger in the air, because you can only confirm figures by testing, something which is proving to be extremely challenging for a country like the UK with a population of 65 million and a sophisticated healthcare system.

Now scale that up to 1.3 billion, with a poor healthcare system and you can pretty much ignore any numbers as rhetoric or propaganda. Imagine infections hitting one of the many slums, with humanity crowded together with little hygiene or sanitation. It could be a humanitarian disaster, and I hope India with it's growing economy and wealth starts looking after its people, particularly those most in need.

But maybe the numbers are right and India somehow has some kind of magic immunity, but I suspect you are in for some tough news over the weeks and months ahead

Hi Steve, maybe add a little meat and context.

Primarily why? Let's be honest 99% of people now Google stuff.

DuckDuckGo is probably the best of the niche and won't capture any details, which is their mantra, but most people also use social media, shop online etc or use zoom  So the whole security argument is a bit weak. 

Other than trying to stop Googles dominance (that tipping point disappeared a long time ago), what genuine reason is there to make my default search engine anything other than Google? 

Happy to be swayed, but yet to hear a genuine argument.

There is a fascinating app called flightradar24.com

Normally you can't see the UK as it is just a mass of aircraft and you have to zoom right in to actually see any spaces between the planes. But I just took an image a few minutes ago of the UK versus the USA.

It's surprising there are still flights entering and leaving the UK, but look at the USA, what is going on???

That's a lot of essential flying! I hope they're not all coming here 

Nowt wrong with a bit of bus and lorry spotting 

Blimey, now a union man!! One out, all out...

I preferred driving lorries because I'm naturally antisocial, and coach jobs tended to be driving round drunken squaddies to various events or going round in circles on camp shuttle getting abuse! So prob pretty similar to you