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Small Essex café owner tells Harrods that they’ll continue to call themselves Hollands

7 June 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The owner of a small café in Essex has vowed to carry on calling themselves Hollands, despite a heavyweight challenge by Harrods. Nigel Holland said he was ‘amazed’ when Harrods’ lawyers wrote to...

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Failure to act quickly enough proved fatal to injunction application to stop trade mark infringement and passing off – Blinkx v Blinkbox, High Court

11 February 2010 | Mark Weston

Since 2004, A had been operating the blinkx.com web site, which was an Internet service providing access to film, television and video content. In 2008, B started up its own site at blinkbox.com, which...

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Ruling tastes good for Smirnoff as vodka name gets protected status – Diageo v Intercontinental Brands, High Court

9 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Diageo – the owner of the market leading brand, Smirnoff – has obtained an important judgment protecting the vodka name from being passed off as a cheaper imitation called vodkat. Smirnoff has been...

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