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The naughty nineties saw multiple disputes over ‘lookalike’ packaging, with supermarket ‘own labels’ lining up against big brand owners. In the UK at least, the law was found wanting, but…

No less than six recent Euro/US cases focused on when a registered trade mark is infringed by a ‘similar’ brand. In the ring were T-Online/E! Online, Starbucks/Charbucks, Cerfix/Perfix, BEAM/BEMA, VOV…

Three trade mark verdicts in recent months concentrate the mind on the need to use brands on all of the products for which they are registered or risk losing the…

Two companies fought a pitched battle over the brand METRIX ELECTRONICS. One was trying to get it registered as a trade mark. The other had used the unregistered mark METRIX…

Confectionery maker Ferrero has recently come a cropper in a two- pronged challenge to FIFA’s claimed monopoly rights over soccer World Cup branding. So what’s wrong with ‘World Cup Germany’…

The Business recently announced that iPod maker Apple is to make it clear to iPod accessory makers that they can only use iPod branding if they pay royalties. But what’s…

On the eve of the launch of Barclays’ long awaited ‘Inventive spirit’ campaign, an East Midlands accountancy practice applied to register the very same strap line that was the centrepiece…

Previously on marketinglaw we reported a case in which the absence of consumer advertising played a crucial part in the revocation of a trade mark registration for lack of use.…

Five years’ non-use can mean curtains for any UK trade mark registration, but was sale to a UK distributor of £800 worth of ‘La Mer’ products enough to save the…