The London Taxi Corporation Ltd (T/A The London Taxi Company) v Frazer-Nash Research Ltd and Another: ChD 3 Jul 2015

Application by the Claimant for permission (a) to adduce in evidence the results of a pilot survey for the purposes of establishing its case on passing off, (b) to carry out a full survey in the form of that pilot survey and to adduce in evidence the results of that full survey for the same purposes, and (c) to rely upon evidence from respondents to both those surveys by adducing as their witness evidence the signed completed questionnaires of such respondents as the Claimant may identify to the Defendants suitably in advance of the trial.

Richard Spearman QC
[2015] EWHC 1840 (Ch)
Bailii
England and Wales

Intellectual Property, Litigation Practice

Updated: 02 January 2022; Ref: scu.550040

BMV Mineralol v OHMI – Delek Europe (GO): ECFI 17 Jun 2015

ECJ Judgment – Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Figurative Community trade mark GO – GO Earlier Community figurative mark – Relative ground for refusal – Article 8, paragraph 1 b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009

T-60/14, [2015] EUECJ T-60/14, ECLI: EU: T: 2015 390
Bailii
Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 8.1(b)

European, Intellectual Property

Updated: 01 January 2022; Ref: scu.549107

Silicium Espana Laboratorios v OHMI – Llr-G5 (LLRG5): ECFI 16 Jun 2015

ECJ Judgment – Community trade mark – Invalidity proceedings – Community word mark ‘LLRG5’ – Absolute ground for refusal – Bad faith on the part of the Community trade mark proprietor – Article 52(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009

T-306/13, [2015] EUECJ T-306/13, ECLI:EU:T:2015:382
Bailii
Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 52(1)(b)

European, Intellectual Property

Updated: 01 January 2022; Ref: scu.549062

Polytetra v OHMI – Ei Du Pont De Nemours (Polytetraflon): ECFI 16 Jun 2015

(Judgment) Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community word mark POLYTETRAFLON – Earlier Community word mark TEFLON – No genuine use of the earlier mark – Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 – Final product incorporating a component – Use of the earlier mark in respect of the final products of third parties – Duty to state reasons

H. Kanninen, P
T-660/11, [2015] EUECJ T-660/11, ECLI:EU:T:2015:387
Bailii
Regulation (EC) No 207/2009

European, Intellectual Property

Updated: 01 January 2022; Ref: scu.549059

Norma Lebensmittelfilialbetrieb v OHMI – Yorma’s (Yorma Eberl): ECFI 16 Jun 2015

ECJ Judgment – Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Community trade mark Yorma Eberl – Earlier Community and national brands NORMA related -Motifs for refusal – No likelihood of confusion – Article 8, paragraph 1 b) and Article 8 paragraph 4 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009

Frimodt S. Nielsen, P
ECLI: EU: T: 2015: 384, T-229/14, [2015] EUECJ T-229/14
Bailii
Regulation (EC) No 207/2009

European, Intellectual Property

Updated: 01 January 2022; Ref: scu.549058

Beautimatic International Ltd v Mitchell International Pharmaceuticals Ltd and An: ChD 8 Jul 1999

The affixing of a UK Trade Mark to packaging materials in the UK on the basis that the materials were to be exported before being affixed, to goods which outside the UK would not be infringing was not unlawful.

Times 08-Jul-1999
Trade Marks Act 1994 10 (4) (a)
England and Wales

Intellectual Property

Updated: 31 December 2021; Ref: scu.78310

Granette and Starorezn Distilleries v OHMI – Bacardi: ECFI 19 May 2015

ECJ Judgment – Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for figurative mark 42 VODKA VODKA Jemna VYRABENA JEDINECNOU technologii 42% vol. – Earlier international figurative mark 42 BELOW – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Article 8, paragraph 1 b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009

T-607/13, [2015] EUECJ T-607/13
Bailii
England and Wales

European, Intellectual Property

Updated: 30 December 2021; Ref: scu.546900