Arsenal Football Club Plc v Reed (No 1) (C-206/01)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date2001
CourtChancery Division
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22 cases
  • Och-Ziff Management Europe Ltd and Another v Och Capital LLP and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 20 October 2010
    ...... Glazer brothers' acquisition of Manchester United Football Club in May 2005. It has also been involved in a number of ... and not as a private matter”: Case C-206/01 Arsenal Football plc v Reed [2002] ECR I-10273 at [40]; Case ......
  • Datacard Corporation v Eagle Technologies Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 14 February 2011
    ...is registered; and (vi) it must affect or be liable to affect the functions of the trade mark: see in particular Case C-206/01 Arsenal Football plc v Reed [2002] ECR I-10273 at [51 ], Case C-245/02 Anheuser-Busch Inc v Budejovicky Budvar np [2004] I-10989 at [59 ], Case C-48/05 Adam Opel AG......
  • City Chain Stores (S) Pte Ltd v Louis Vuitton Malletier
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 6 November 2009
    ......[64] of Nation Fittings ), the ECJ’s decision in Arsenal Football Club Plc v Reed [2003] Ch 454 (“ Arsenal v ......
  • Nation Fittings (M) Sdn Bhd v Oystertec Plc and Another Suit
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 15 December 2005
    ...the UK position, as we have just seen, is also open – a point also acknowledged recently by Laddie J in Arsenal Football Club Plc v Reed [2001] RPC 46, especially at [63] and even more recently by Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe in R v Johnstone who adopted, as we shall see, a slightly differe......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Defending The Black Knight
    • South Africa
    • Mondaq Southafrica
    • 8 October 2013
    ...fact that Distell had not submitted any evidence of confusion. Reference is made to the UK case of Arsenal Football Club P.L.C. v Reed [2001] R.P.C. 46 at 922 to 931 in which it was found by the court that where an applicant approaches the court at the commencement of trade in the offending......
3 books & journal articles
  • Intellectual Property Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2010, December 2010
    • 1 December 2010
    ...eg, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [1999] RPC 117 at [28]. The saga began with the case of Arsenal Football Club plc v Reed [2001] RPC 46 (‘Arsenal v Reed’)which concerned the famous club suing a stall-holder (and probably a fan as well) selling scarves, hats and other memorab......
  • Intellectual Property Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2005, December 2005
    • 1 December 2005
    ...British Sugar (supra para 16.56) and Philips (supra para 16.13). These cases were soon followed by Arsenal Football Club Plc v Reed (see [2001] RPC 46 (Ch), [2003] RPC 9 (ECJ) and [2003] RPC 39 (CA)) and the House of Lords case of R v Johnstone[2003] FSR 42 where the ECJ and the UK courts g......
  • RIGHTS AND DEFENCES AT THE INTERFACE OF COPYRIGHT AND TRADE MARK LAW: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE “ARTISTICALLY ENDOWED TRADE MARK” PHENOMENON
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2003, December 2003
    • 1 December 2003
    ...had to be use in a “trade mark sense”. 24 British Sugar, supra note 10, at 296-297. 25 See Arsenal Football Club Plc v Reed (“Arsenal”)[2001] RPC 46 (English High Court); [2003] RPC 9 (European Court of Justice); [2003] 1 All ER 137 (English High Court); [2003] EWCA Civ 696 (English Court o......

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