2002 (production)


 * 20 March - Several years after the initial filing, the matter of the London Metropolitan Police District's 1998 opposition to the BBC's 1996 application for trademark status on the police box design was heard in court.
 * 14 August - After several years of legal wrangling, the Patent Office ruled in favour of the BBC in a trademark challenge brought on by the London Metropolitan Police over the use of the police box design for the TARDIS.