Antec International Limited v South Western Chicks (Warren) Limited: PatC 27 Mar 1998

Where words in a product name were so generally descriptive as to be unable to distinguish the product from others, they could nevertheless be registerable as a Trade Mark with goodwill, after acquiring a secondary connotation.

Citations:

Times 08-Apr-1998, Gazette 07-May-1998, [1998] EWHC Patents 330

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Trade Marks Act 1994

Intellectual Property

Updated: 04 June 2022; Ref: scu.163069