Where a party had leant its name to a joint venture on an implied licence that the name could be used whilst it remained a party to the joint venture, that licence expired when the company ceased to be a party to the joint venture. The court would not get involved in detailed examination of the ownership of a name within a group of companies in order to establish whether the goodwill in it resided with the holding company.
Citations:
Times 14-Jul-1999, [1999] EWCA Civ 1667, [2000] RPC 669
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – D Jacobson and Sons Ltd v Globe Gb Ltd Globe Europe Sas Chd 25-Jan-2008
The claimant alleged infringement by the defendants of its ‘Gola’ trade mark designs. The defendant said the registration was invalid because the stripes on the shoes were not distincive being seen as part of the design of the shoe rather than as an . .
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Intellectual Property
Updated: 12 April 2022; Ref: scu.146582