Gama Healthcare sued competitor Pal International over allegedly confusing similarities between the design of Pal’s “Medipal” wet wipe packs and Gama’s own Clinell wipe packs. Vicki Hawkins compares the packs and reports on Gama’s attempt to widen its claims.
The botched commissioning of a design agency to create a logo led to a dispute. Equitable ownership of the IP rights turned out to be potentially vital. Legal assignee Atelier Eighty Two was the claimant, but who won? Chloe Deng reports.
The tort of passing off recently rode to the rescue of two UK brands whose fight against alleged interlopers looked cooked when their trade mark registrations were held invalid. Astrid Bulmer and Stephen Groom report
Join the first choice for single travellers,” said a flyer and brochure for holiday company Solitair. Small print said the claim was “for trade mark purposes” and “did not imply to any sales or revenue.” What did it all mean? Fiona Schneider reports on the ensuing ASA case.
“Felix raspberry and vanilla adventure” tea packs with “natural flavourings” and “raspberry and vanilla taste” and raspberry and vanilla pod artwork contained neither. Did the ingredients list save the day after German consumers sued? Mark Nathan and Stephen Groom report
The EU General Court recently considered a claim by US-based Giovanni Cosmetics, Inc that its “GIOVANNI” CTM should prevent the registration of “GIOVANNI GALLI” for the same goods by Vasconcelos & Goncalves SA of Spain. Varuni Paranavitane reports.
EU Ministers have published the final compromise text of the amended Trade Marks Directive. With formal adoption expected in early 2016 what are the key changes European brand owners can expect by the likely 2019 transposition deadline? Abby Minns reports
The Court of Appeal has recently considered cases involving major brands Asos and Scrabble pitted Assos and Scramble respectively. Did one letter make that much difference? Varuni Paranavitane reports.
Here Global BV, navigation, mapping and location technology specialists, used their registration of HERE for advertising services to oppose registration by Here’s Great Ltd of “Heres Great.com” for eatery recommendations. Varuni Paranavitane reports the outcome.
One of the numerous new gTLDs recently approved by ICANN has been “.sucks” With its registry due to open before 2016, the clock is already ticking, with 1 June 2015 seeing the close of the sunrise period.Vicki Hawkins reports.
Since 1972 Revolvo Ltd had sold “Revolvo” bearings components. In 2010 its group applied to register REVOLVO as a UK trade mark. Volvo opposed based on their VOLVO registrations. Varuni Paranavitane reports.
