PR Aviation’s website aggregated low cost airline flight data so travellers could compare and book, paying a commission. Ryanair imposed conditions on use of its flight data. Could these be enforced if database right didn’t apply? Gemma Woodhead reports.
US corporation Blackrock, Inc applied to register two phrases as Community Trade Marks. But were they just banal expressions that were “devoid of distinctive character” and hence not registrable? Ben Goodger reports the EU General Court judgment.
After 4 years helping MI design and manufacture endoscopy devices, Mr Eakins left and signed a confidentiality agreement, but still accessed MI’s customer and distributor databases and allegedly used these in a competing venture. Abby Minns reports on the litigation.
Ideal Home Magazine opened an online shop in 2009 and registered relevant trade marks. They sued when the unconnected operators of the Ideal Home Show went online with the “Ideal Home Show Shop.” Gemma Woodhead reports on the court’s findings.
Alexander House Financial Services applied to register SMART ALEX for financial services. BinckBank N.V. challenged as they had registered ALEX for a wide variety of services in the same class. Could BinckBank knock back Alexander House’s application? Varuni Paranavitane reports.
118 Data Resource Ltd licensed competitor IDS Data to make uses of 118’s customer database. They fell out and 118 exercised a right in the licence to audit IDS’s use of the data. Or so it thought. Ben Dunham reports.
In the titanic tussle between Interflora and Marks & Spencer over M&S’s use of “Interflora” as an online search term, the Court of Appeal has allowed M&S’s appeal and sent the case back for a retrial. Abby Minns reports.
In the David and Goliath trade mark battle between a UK comedy club and Twentieth Century Fox’s “Glee” TV series, the Court has considered remedies and whether the new series name could end “formerly known as Glee.” Gemma Woodhead reports.
