Action was taken by or in the name of one Celestin Marius Rey, who was the Procureur of the Carthusian Order. He was registered in England as the legal owner of the Grande Chartreuse trade-marks. The business of manufacturing liqueurs, together with the goodwill and the trade-marks, were the property of the monks as an association and not the property of the plaintiff Rey
Held: A ruling by the French courts that the ownership of the trade mark Chartreuse (formerly belonging to the monastery of Grand Chartreuse) had passed to a liquidator under French law, could not affect the title to the English trade mark, since the French courts had no jurisdiction to determine title to this English property.
Judges:
Buckley LJ
Citations:
[1908] 2 Ch 715, [1910] AC 262
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Appeal from – Rey v Lecouturier HL 1910
A ruling by the French courts that the ownership of the trade mark Chartreuse (formerly belonging to the monastery of Grand Chartreuse) had passed to a liquidator under French law, could not affect the title to the English trade mark, since the . .
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Intellectual Property, International
Updated: 30 April 2022; Ref: scu.199526