Registrability in UK Law

  • Red Bull Gmbh v Sun Mark Ltd and Another
    • Chancery Division
    • 17 July 2012
    ... ... 1994, to which the European Union and all its Member States are parties, provides as follows: "Members may make registrability [of a trademark] depend on use. However, actual use of a trade mark shall not be a condition for filing an application for registration. An ... ...
  • Digipos Store Solutions Group Ltd v Digi International Inc.
    • Chancery Division
    • 12 March 2008
    ... ... Such issues have arisen both in the context of disputes over registrability of a later mark and in the context of infringement proceedings, as the authorities show. Authorities ... 26 ... ...
  • Re Smith Kline & French Laboratories Ltd's Applications
    • House of Lords
    • 21 May 1975
    ... ... 15 I turn from the statute to the cases. There is no English authority that is directly in point; but the registrability of what are substantially identical trade marks under the Australian Trade Marks Act was considered by Windeyer J. in Smith Kline and French ... ...
  • Whirlpool Corporation and Others v Kenwood Ltd
    • Chancery Division
    • 04 August 2008
    ... ... 12 The required approach to assessment under Article 7(1)(b) in cases relating to the registrability of three-dimensional shapes has repeatedly been summarised by the ECJ in terms to the following effect 12 : 23. …it is settled case-law ... ...
  • Procter & Gamble Company v Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 October 2007
    ... ... 17 The recital is actually framed around the requirement for registrability—whether the design has “individual character”—rather than the test for infringement. Curiously the reference to the “existing design ... ...
  • W3 Ltd v Easygroup Ltd
    • Chancery Division
    • 12 January 2018
    ... ... Paragraph 1 shall apply notwithstanding that the grounds of non-registrability obtain in only part of the Community. 3. Paragraph 1 (b), (c) and (d) shall not apply if the trade mark has become distinctive in relation ... ...
  • Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV v Remington Consumer Products Ltd and Another
    • Chancery Division
    • 21 October 2004
    ... ... 'in substance' because I do not believe that shapes with trivial embellishments or variants are outside the exclusion from registrability. Applying that test I conclude that the shape registered as a trade mark consists exclusively of a shape which is necessary to obtain a ... ...
  • Comic Enterprises Ltd v Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 May 2016
  • Societie des Produits Nestle v Mars UK Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 July 2004
  • Bignell v Just Employment Law Ltd
    • Chancery Division
    • 02 October 2007
    ... ... 7(2) of Regulation No 40/94 which provides that a trade mark is not to be registered notwithstanding that the grounds of non-registrability [laid down in Article 7(1)] obtain in only part of the Community ... 26 Article 7(3) of Regulation No 40/94 must be read in the light of that ... ...
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