3/6/2025 4:40:25 PM Company Name Tribunal Actions: A Review of most recent Defended Actions By Thomas Hooper If a company registers an identical or similar company name in the UK with Companies House, submitting a complaint with the Company Names...
3/4/2025 10:26:12 AM Supreme Court to rule on post-sale confusion in trade mark infringement cases By Ewan Grist Supreme Court judgments in IP cases are normally few and far between, but we’ve been spoiled recently with decisions on targeting,...
2/24/2025 12:28:37 PM When a mark’s reputation precedes it: considerations for owners of reputable brands By Zyan Yang For most business owners, building a strong brand reputation would be desirable. One may even be tempted into thinking that brand...
2/17/2025 8:30:00 AM Virtually the same? Trade marks for virtual goods and services can be assessed like their ‘real’ equivalents (EU General Court) By Naji Tilley In Case T-1163/23 Glashütter Uhrenbetrieb GmbH v EUIPO (11 December 2024), the EU General Court upheld a refusal to register an EU trade...
2/13/2025 8:56:03 AM Canada's CIPO Launches Pilot Project to Enforce Section 45 of the Trade Marks Act: What It Means for Trade Mark Owners By Paola Ruggiero Sara Consorti The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has launched a pilot project aimed at randomly executing Section 45 of the Canadian...
1/20/2025 3:40:56 PM STOP PRESS: Court of Appeal rules in Thatcher’s favour in lookalike lemon cider battle By Tristan Sherliker Earlier today the Court of Appeal published its much anticipated judgment in the high profile dispute between Thatchers and Aldi over...