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Flight giant United Airlines was unimpressed with the use of “United Airways” by minnow United Airways Bangladesh. Armed with a trade mark registration, UA applied to Chancery for summary judgment…

German soft drinks maker Eckes Granini, home of brands JOKER, HOHES C and YO “Fruit Syrup” is fighting Tesco’s bid to register “YOO” as a trade mark for a range…

For the last three years, Google has allowed brands to bid for the right to use their rivals’ trade marks as links to their own sites. But will the London…

Hasbro has no appetite for YUMMY DOUGH The toy giant and PLAY-DOH brand owner sued Nährmittel over its UK launch of a powdered dough mix, promoted as “the edible play…

Each year, more than 1.3m people visit King Ludwig II’s Gothic Revival retreat that inspired Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle. So registering its “Neuschwanstein” monicker as a trade mark seemed a…

It all started when a former cowshed was turned into a spa in a Somerset hotel and inspired a range of “Cowshed” lifestyle products. Subsidiary brands “Cheeky Cow”, “Knackered Cow”…

Just as you thought it was safe to assume we had seen the last variation on the theme “Does Adwords infringe trade marks?”, up have popped two more cases, this…

Liz Earle Beauty Co appeared before the EU General Court in a bid for monopoly rights in a phrase that “on the face of it” might seem like a common…

As it had not lost sales by the infringement, the National Guild of Removers and Storers had to persuade the Court to do something close to breaking new legal ground…

The CTM Examiner rejected as “not graphically represented” a sequence of 20 stills lasting 6 seconds and featuring a coloured stream of liquid flowing into a sphere. The telecoms giant…