MISTER CHEF v. MASTERCHEF: conceptual dissonance? On 15 December, Mrs Justice Joanna Smith DBE handed down a short decision in an appeal from the Trade Marks Registry in Shine TV Ltd v. Ska Trading Ltd [2022] EWHC […]
Trade Marks
Nicholas Caddick KC
Monster Energy Co. v. Red Bull GmbH – CH-2021-000211
The High Court did not believe that Monster didn’t intend to benefit from the Red Bull brand “‘Red Dawg’ will in fact, whether that is what Monster subjectively intended or not, be given […]
Lifestyle Equities & Anr v Amazon & Ors [2022] EWCA Civ 552
The Court of Appeal found that listings on Amazon’s US website targeted consumers in the UK/EU and thus Amazon had infringed Lifestyle’s UK/EU trade marks. Michael Edenborough QC and Thomas St Quintin, instructed […]
Indo European Foods Ltd v European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) (T-342/20) [2022] E.T.M.R. 1
Representing the successful appellant in seeking to annul a decision of the EUIPO Board of Appeal where it had decided that Brexit meant the earlier UK rights could be disregarded in an opposition […]
Urbanbubble Ltd & others v Urban Evolution
Urbanbubble Ltd & others v Urban Evolution Property Management Ltd & others [2022] EWHC 134 (IPEC). When consent precludes trade mark infringement: Amanda Michaels acted for the successful Defendants in an action for […]
Lyle & Scott v American Eagle Outfitters – permission to serve out of jurisdiction and Rome II Regulation
This was an application to set aside permission to serve proceedings on the US defendant alleging breach of a worldwide trade mark co-existence agreement and passing off. Both parties used eagle devices for […]
Lifestyles Equities CV v Copyrights Group – Greenwich Polo Club device marks do not infringe Beverly Hills Polo Club registered trade mark
This case concerned whether various device marks including the words “Greenwich Polo Club” infringed registered trade marks for “Beverly Hills Polo Club” and amounted to passing off. The court held that there was […]
