Cambridge is world-famous, but away from its colleges and cobbled streets, a legal row is brewing over rights to the city name. How far can its university go to protect its intellectual property, and what is it like to take on the 800-year-old institution?
Tahl Holtzman applied to trademark the name of his company, Cambridge NeuroTech, in 2017.
He thought the process would “be a breeze” and waited for a window for objections to close.
But “on the very last day – five minutes to midnight” he was told of formal opposition from “the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge“.
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