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Small local cafes around Olympic stadium in fight to keep name

8 March 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Olympic Café, Café OIympic and Olympic Internet all trade on the same road in the vicinity of the Olympic stadium in East London. They were hoping to be part of the success story of the London 2012 Games,...

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Own name defence to registered trade mark infringement applies to trading as well as corporate names, but use must be honest – Hotel Cipriani v Cipriani (Grosvenor Street) Ltd, Court of Appeal

4 March 2010 | Paul Gershlick

HC – which owned hotels under the name ‘Cipriani’ in Italy, Portugal and Madeira - has won in its trade mark infringement action against the owners of a restaurant that called itself ‘Cipriani...

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