Keep Calm and Carry on Selling

 This is our message to UK businesses selling ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ goods.

If you should you receive any correspondence from the trade mark owner, please let us know

The law on trade marks is unclear as to whether using text that has been trade marked as a form of decoration (as opposed to portraying the origin or producer of the goods) is in fact trade mark infringement.

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