As the trend for gratuitously litigious behaviour continues to filter over from our special friends in the US, it seems that more and more parties are battling over the simplest of matters when it comes to protecting patents and their intellectual property (IP).

One such dispute recently saw staff at the London office of Denton Wilde Sapte taking a close look at a selection of women’s lingerie – a case not quite as alluring and glamorous as it first sounds.