19 Apr, 2024 On Your Marks, Get Set, Register! By Christine Danos April Parker With the famous Grand National race recently coming to an end, this year’s winner, I Am Maximus, has quickly become a household name....
11 Mar, 2024 UK Supreme Court looks at ‘targeting’ for online TM use By Nick Aries In a decision issued this week, the Supreme Court has for the first time addressed the issue of when the use of a trade mark on a foreign...
20 Feb, 2024 Battle of the cloudy ciders – “benchmarking” and trade mark infringement By Fred Cascarini Sharon Mutizira On 24 January 2024, the UK IP Enterprise Court issued a judgment concerning Thatchers’ and Aldi’s lemon cider products. Aldi admitted...
03 Oct, 2023 Beverly Hills Polo Club not infringed by Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club By Parisa Fard The High Court considered “how insubstantial the supposed evidence of confusion” was between the brandsThe claimants’ evidence of alleged...
13 Jun, 2023 Plot twist: Rebekah Vardy registers trade mark ”WAGATHA CHRISTIE” after losing libel case By Maisie Briggs Freddie Eastwell The phrase “Wagatha Christie”, claimed to have been coined by Dan Atkinson in a viral tweet sent back in 2019, has been a buzzword in the...
03 May, 2023 Not long now – UK Supreme Court publishes SkyKick hearing dates! By Heidi Hurdle Yesterday, the UK Supreme Court finally published the dates it will hear the long awaited SkyKick v Sky appeal and it’s not long to wait!...
20 Apr, 2023 Lidl claims long-awaited victory in battle with Tesco over Clubcard logo By Ewan Grist Heidi Hurdle On 19 April 2023, UK High Court Judge Joanna Smith handed down the long-awaited judgment in the battle between the two supermarket...
15 Feb, 2023 Changes to UK trade mark law for well known marks By Harry Ferguson The Trade Marks (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (SI 2022/1303) (the ‘Regulations’) came into force on 27 December 2022. The Regulations will...
26 Jan, 2023 Signed, sealed, delivered – new UK address for service rules By Charlotte Peacock The UK IPO has published a new Tribunal Practice Notice setting out new rules for service of inter partes proceedings where there is no...
24 Nov, 2022 Pre-Brexit use in the UK irrelevant in EU cancellation proceedings heard after Brexit By Callum Granger In an important decision (found here), the General Court has decided in favour of the EUIPO, holding that evidence of use of an earlier...