Bristol Conservatories Ltd v Conservatories Custom Built Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1989
Year1989
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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21 cases
  • CDL Hotels International Ltd v Pontiac Marina Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 9 April 1998
    ...thinking that they or their businesses are connected with each other. In Bristol Conservatories Ltd v Conservatories Custom Built Ltd [1989] RPC 455, the defendants showed prospective customers a portfolio of photographs of the plaintiffs` ornamental conservatories as if they were samples o......
  • Matthew Gloag and Son Ltd and Another v Welsh Distillers Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 24 February 1998
    ...put their case in two ways. Reverse passing-off The plaintiffs relied on Bristol Conservatories Ltd v Conservatories Custom Built LtdUNK ([1989] RPC 455), where the defendant's salesmen had shown potential customers photographs of the plaintiff's conservatories, leading them to believe they......
  • Robert John Powers School Inc. and Others v Tessensohn (trading as Clea Professional Image Consultants)
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 1 September 1993
    ...v The Lothian Book Publishing Co Proprietary Ltd (1921) 29 CLR 396 (refd) Bristol Conservatories Ltd v Conservatories Custom Built Ltd [1989] RPC 455 (folld) Erven Warnink BV v J Townend & Sons (Hull) Ltd [1979] AC 731; [1979] 2 All ER 927 (folld) John Henderson & Sons v Alexander Munro [19......
  • Robert John Powers School Inc. and Others v Tessensohn (trading as Clea Professional Image Consultants)
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 30 July 1994
    ...[31]. Attorney-General v Corporation of Manchester [1893] 2 Ch 87 (folld) Bristol Conservatories Ltd v Conservatories Custom Built Ltd [1989] RPC 455 (folld) Erven Warnink BV v J Townend & Sons (Hull) Ltd [1979] AC 731; [1979] 2 All ER 927 (refd) Hooper v Rogers [1975] Ch 43 (refd) John Hen......
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  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Canadian Telecommunications Law
    • 6 September 2011
    ...287, 289 Bristol Conservatories Ltd. v. Conservatories Custom Built Ltd., [1989] R.P.C. 455 (Eng. C.A.) ................................................................ 143 British Columbia (Attorney General) v. Lafarge Canada Inc., 2007 SCC 23, [2007] 2 S.C.R. 86, [2007] 6 W.W.R. 197 ...........
  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN SINGAPORE: A GENERAL OVERVIEW1
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1992, December 1992
    • 1 December 1992
    ...Townend[1979] A.C. 731. It is worth noting that the Court of Appeal in Bristol Conservatories Ltd. v. Conservatories Custom Built Ltd. [1989] R.P.C. 455 (a case on “reverse passing-off”) appears to have accepted that passing-off could exist in formats other than the three main types stated ......
  • PARALLEL IMPORTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1990, December 1990
    • 1 December 1990
    ...to deal with the specific facts and issues before the court. See Bristol Conservatories Ltd. v. Conservatories Custom Built Ltd[1989] R.P.C. 455 at p.466 per Ralph Gibson L.J. 79 See Reddaway (Frank) & Co. Ltd. v. George Banham & Co. Ltd.[1896] A.C. 199; Perry v. Truefitt(1842) 49 E.R. 749 ......
  • Intellectual Property Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...The argument found no favour with the English Court of Appeal. 19.21 In Bristol Conservatories Ltd v Conservatories Custom Built Ltd[1989] RPC 455 (‘Bristol Conservatories’), the plaintiffs and the defendants were engaged in designing and selling ornamental conservatories. The defendants' s......

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