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The High Court has granted summary judgment to ALM Manufacturing, a garden tools manufacturer, dismissing a defence of “innocent” infringement. Katherine Seymour reports the judgment and considers the implications for…

From 1 October 2008 it will be possible for anyone (not simply registered companies as was previously the case) to object to the registration of a company name if it…

Following last month’s Marketinglaw.co.uk article on the fine handed down to Ebay for allowing fake Hermes bags, Ray Coyle examines two new, and conflicting, decisions from France and the US…

The CFI has rejected an application to register as a Community Trade Mark the slogan DREAM IT! DO IT!, finding that it lacks distinctive character. But what about Nike’s JUST…

A French Court in Troyes has recently condemned eBay jointly with the vendor of counterfeited Hermes bags and since then eBay has suffered a similar but much more expensive fate…

Now that we have (almost) the last word on the O2/3 comparative advertising case, join Osborne Clarke London’s advertising and intellectual property specialists for bubbles, bacon butties and a quarter…

Not content with preventing a company from using a Bank’s trade mark (“Orion”) in its advertising, a US Court has ordered a defendant to require the activation of the term…

Google’s recent AdWords policy change relaxes the rules for parties looking to use a trade marked term to trigger advertisements. What will be the impact of this on brand owners…

The IPO has launched a consultation on the modernisation and consolidation of the Trade Mark Rules 2000. In addition the IPO is also proposing more substantive changes. David Pawan scrutinises…

In this month’s update we report on a recent Chancery verdict which said that Yahoo! was not infringing a registered trade mark “Mr Spicy” by selling the word “spicy” as…