The court considered the historical development of the defence of honest concurrent use of trade marks.
Citations:
[1973] RPC 297, [1972] 2 All ER 507, [1972] 1 WLR 729
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Reed Executive Plc, Reed Solutions Plc v Reed Business Information Ltd, Reed Elsevier (Uk) Ltd, Totaljobs Com Ltd CA 3-Mar-2004
The claimant alleged trade mark infringement by the respondents by the use of a mark in a pop-up advert.
Held: The own-name defence to trade mark infringement is limited. Some confusion may be allowed if overall the competition was not unfair . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Intellectual Property
Updated: 13 May 2022; Ref: scu.194808
