Anheuser-Busch Inc. v Budejovicky Budvar NP (trading as Budvar Brewery)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1984 |
| Year | 1984 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
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- Melly's Trade Mark Application (Fianna Fail and Fine Gael Trade Marks)
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Hotel Cipriani SRL and Others v Cipriani (Grosvenor Street) Ltd and Others
...must own goodwill in the United Kingdom. It is not enough to have a reputation here: see Anheuser-Busch Inc v Budejovicky Budvar NP [1984] FSR 413. 216 Fifthly, it is sufficient for goodwill to exist in the United Kingdom that the claimant has customers or ultimate consumers for his goods ......
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Hotel Cipriani SRL and Others v Cipriani (Grosvenor Street) Ltd and Others
...consumption (e.g. cans of beer) it does not have goodwill here if its products are not available for sale to the public here: Anheuser-Busch v Budejovicky Budvar NP [1984] FSR 413 (which I will call Budweiser). How that applies to a business which supplies services, and which only does so ......
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CDL Hotels International Ltd v Pontiac Marina Pte Ltd
...own. 48.The distinction between goodwill and reputation was clearly brought out in the case of Anheuser-Busch Inc v Budejovicky Budvar NP [1984] FSR 413, at p 470. There, the plaintiffs were the brewers of a beer known as `Budweiser` and had been selling their beer in North America for a lo......
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3 firm's commentaries
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Lessons in brand protection: A battle that brewed in Australian craft beer litigation
...market reputation with the word Pacific. This case was distinguished from the Anheuser-Busch, Inc v Budejovický Budvar, Národní Podnik (Budweiser Case) [2002] FCA 390; 56 IPR 182, where the Budweiser trade mark/beer was found to have a well-known reputation. The primary judge also found......
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Honest Concurrent Trademark Use
...or otherwise connected. As a result, Media Ten was entitled to rely upon the doctrine of honest concurrent use as established in the Budweiser case. The IPC appealed from the decision to the Court of Appeal. The appeal was dismissed and the court relied on its previous decision on the Budwe......
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Seeing Double? Honest Concurrent Use Of The Budweiser Trademark
...European Union recently provided their response to the Court of Appeal's questions and the Court of Appeal applied their reasoning to the Budweiser case. Key Elements of the Decision The Court of Justice of the European Union said that the proper interpretation of the relevant law means tha......
5 books & journal articles
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Popular Names Index to UK Cases and EU Legislation and Cases
...of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000 (OJ 2003 L338/1) Budweiser Case Anheuser-Busch Inc v Budejovicky Budvar Narodni Podnik (1984) 4 IPR 260; [1984] FSR 413 Bulger Case See James Bulger Case Bullock Order Case......
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PARALLEL IMPORTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN SINGAPORE
...Some courts have treated the Diplock and Fraser requirements as being cumulative. See Anheuser-Busch Inc. v. Budejovicky Budvar N.P.[1984] F.S.R. 413 and Colgate-Palmolive Ltd & Anor v. Markwell Finance & Anor[1989] R.P.C. 497. This approach is somewhat curious. Lord Diplock was putting for......
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Commercializing Human Rights: Trademarks in Europe After Anheuser‐Busch v Portugal
...and Subjects of Politics: Intellectual Property Laws andDemocratic Dialogue’, Texas Law Review, 69(7), 1853–80.Corte-Real, A. (2002) ‘The Budweiser Case in Portugal’, European Intellectual Property Review, 24(1), 43–6.Diamond, S. A. (1975) ‘The Historical Development of Trademarks’, Tradema......
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This Bud's For You: Understanding International Intellectual Property Law Through the Ongoing Dispute over the Budweiser Trademark
...at 139 (recommending use of studentleaders to set peer group norms to counteractalcohol misuse). Similar cautions certainly exist for the Budweiser case, which, if handledcarelessly, can result in an implicit approval of alcohol consumption.2See generally http://www.anheuser-busch.com (last......
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