Accessibility links

Latest input tagged trade mark

RSS feed for trade mark

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...

Tags on this discussion:

Misleading Hovis ad not quite the best thing since sliced bread

2 March 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The Advertising Standard Agency has ruled that Premier Foods should stop using a misleading advert which stated that its Hovis brand had been voted Britain’s softest white bread. The claim was based...

Tags on this discussion:

Budget airlines hit new low with libel action between two big players

25 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has said that Ryanair and its chief executive Michael O’Leary have crossed a line and he has been left with no alternative but to issue legal proceedings for defamation. Stelios...

Tags on this discussion:

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 | Paul Gershlick

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...

Tags on this discussion:

Overwhelming domain name WIPO victory ends: InterContinental 1500 Daniel Kirchof 10

1 comment 3 February 2010 | Mark Weston

The InterContinental Hotels Group has obtained the transfer of 1,500 domain names from a single registrant, Daniel Kirchof, in one go. IHG obtained the order using the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s...

Tags on this discussion:

Intellectual Property: McDonald’s eats IP up

2 February 2010 | Mark Weston

In 2008, a teenager from Chicago (Lauren McClusky) applied to register the name McFest at the US Patent & Trademark Office. She cited the use of “Mc” as linked to the Mc in her own surname. For the...

Tags on this discussion:

Court of Appeal asks European Court of Justice to rule on lawfulness on seizing counterfeit goods coming through EU in transit only – Nokia v HMRC, Court of Appeal

28 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Nokia has persuaded the Court of Appeal to ask the European Court of Justice to answer questions surrounding the seizure of counterfeit goods which are passing through the EU in transit only. Under EU...

Tags on this discussion:

Which? magazine accuses Google of making money out of counterfeit web sites

19 January 2010 | Mark Weston

Which? magazine has accused Google of making millions of pounds from web sites selling counterfeit goods, such as those selling fake Ugg boots, Tiffany jewellery and GHD hair straighteners. It claims that...

Tags on this discussion:

Hotel finds trade mark registration no longer allowed to stay

7 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Carlyle had a hotel in the US and registered a trade mark for it in the UK in 1999. Under EU trade mark law, a registered trade mark can be revoked if it has not been put to genuine use within the relevant...

Tags on this discussion:

Sun comes from the East and West, so M-Tech loses parallel import case – Sun v M-Tech, High Court

7 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick

M-Tech was a parallel importer of Sun Microsystems’ computer hardware products, meaning it bought products with Sun’s registered trade marks on in one country and re-sold them in the UK at a profit....

Tags on this discussion: