Avnet Incorporated v Isoact Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1998 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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Pathway IP Sarl (formerly Regus No. 2 Sarl) v Easygroup Ltd (formerly Easygroup IP Licensing Ltd)
...about the potential width of certain service marks and rightly reminded himself of the observation of Jacob J in Avnet, Inc v Isoact Ltd [1998] FSR 16 who said at page 19: “In my view, specifications for services should be scrutinised carefully and they should not be given a wide constructi......
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Total Ltd v Youview TV Ltd
...of class numbers were considered by …the courts in Altecnic Ltd's Trade Mark Application (CAREMIX) [2002] RPC 639. In Avnet Incorporated v Isoact Limited [1998] FSR 16 Jacob J held that: "In my view, specifications for services should be scrutinised carefully and they should not be given a......
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Stichting Bdo and Others v BDO Unibank, Inc. and Others
...that the limits of the specification become fuzzy, nor strained to produce a narrow meaning. 37 As Jacob J pointed out in Avnet Inc v Isoact Ltd [1998] FSR 16 at 19, specifications of services can pose particular problems of interpretation: "… definitions of services, which I think cover s......
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Disputes & Litigation Over Domain Names
...to the complainant's trade mark. This may not be as easy as it sounds if the decision of the English High Court in Avnet Inc v Isoact Ltd [1998] FSR 16 is anything go by. In that case the defendant was an ISP that used the domain name 'avnet.co.uk' and the plaintiff was the owner of the tra......
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Intellectual Property Law
...carefully, so as to ensure that it is not given a wide construction covering a vast range of goods or services (see Avnet Inc v Isoact Ltd[1998] FSR 16). Once the double identity is established, there is a presumption that a likelihood of confusion on the part of the public has arisen as a ......