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It was big news when the Trade Marks Act 1994 allowed advertisers to use their competitors' registered trademarks in knocking copy provided their advertising was not significantly misleading. Now a…

Having traded under the Phones4U brand name for some years before the defendant registered the domain name phone4U.co.uk, Phones4U must have thought that they had an open and shut case.…

Magazine publisher Hachette and textile maker Saprotex both used the trademark ‘Elle.’ Something had to give, and in this dispute it was Hachette’s “Elle” registrations for slippers, headgear and artificial…

With more brand owners registering ad slogans as trade marks, the European Court of Justice has looked at whether they should be more difficult to register than single word brands.…

Yellow Pages recently announced the winners of its ‘Best Business Name 2004′ competition. The finalists were highly ingenious, humorous and distinctive brands, but had any of them bothered to register…

When a certain celebrity chef named a dessert in an exclusive London restaurant menu after a famous Wall’s ice cream sub-brand, he got a rocket from ‘m’learned friends’ at Unilever.…

Were competing women’s magazine titles so confusingly similar that only one could obtain registered trade mark status?   Topic: Brands Who: Mizz (IPC) v Ms (Liberty Media for Women LLC) Where: The UK Trademarks Registry When: June…