Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Muller and Company's Margarine, Ltd

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date20 May 1901
Judgment citation (vLex)[1901] UKHL J0520-2
CourtHouse of Lords
Date20 May 1901
Commissioners of Inland Revenue
and
Muller and Company's Margarine, Limited.

[1901] UKHL J0520-2

House of Lords

1

After hearing Counsel, as well on Friday the 15th as Tuesday the 19th and Thursday the 21st days of March last, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 7th of November 1899, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament,...

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  • Restraints of trade in commercial documents must be reasonable
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 26 October 2021
    ...as something which adds value to the business: Trego v Hunt [1896] AC 7; Muller & Co's Margarine Ltd v Inland Revenue Commissioners (1901) AC 217; Box v The Commissioner Taxation (1952) 86 CLR 387; [1952] HCA 61; Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Murry (1998) 193 CLR 605; [1998] HCA 42; Ta......
  • Restraints of trade in commercial documents must be reasonable
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 26 October 2021
    ...as something which adds value to the business: Trego v Hunt [1896] AC 7; Muller & Co's Margarine Ltd v Inland Revenue Commissioners (1901) AC 217; Box v The Commissioner Taxation (1952) 86 CLR 387; [1952] HCA 61; Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Murry (1998) 193 CLR 605; [1998] HCA 42; Ta......
  • Use Of Third Party Brands: Dos And Don'ts In Social Media And Advertising
    • Canada
    • Mondaq Canada
    • 25 May 2020
    ...of specialist IP counsel Ivy Liang in our Guangzhou office. Find out more here. Footnote 1 I.R.C. v Muller & Co's Margarine Ltd [1901] A.C. 217 at 223 per Lord Originally published Apr 30, 2020. Read the original article on GowlingWLG.com The content of this article is intended to provide a......
  • Sailing Close To The Wind: Budget Brands
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 25 May 2021
    ...valuable goodwill and reputation in their trade marks. After all, in the words of Lord Mcnaghten in IRC v Muller & Co's Margarine Ltd [1901] AC 217, goodwill is "the attractive force which brings custom". It is, in effect, what induces someone to buy Kellogg's corn flakes instead of the cor......
10 books & journal articles
  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN SINGAPORE: A GENERAL OVERVIEW1
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1992, December 1992
    • 1 December 1992
    ...Inc. [1990] 1 All E.R. 873 at p. 880. 155 See Jordache v. Millennium[1985] 1 M.L.J. 281. 156 See I.R.C. v. Muller & Co.’s Margarine Ltd. [1901] A.C. 217 at p. 223. 157 See Star Industrial Co. Ltd. v. Yap Kwee Kor[1976] F.S.R. 256 at p. 269. This passage was quoted by Thean J. in Tan Gek Neo......
  • Case Note
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...UKSC 31 at [47]. 16AG Spalding & Bros v AW Gamage Ltd(1915) 32 RPC 273; Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Muller & Co's Margarine Ltd[1901] AC 217; T Oertli AG v EJ Bowman (London) Ltd[1959] RPC 1; Erven Warnink BV v J Townend & Sons (Hull) Ltd[1979] AC 731; Reckitt & Colman Products Ltd v ......
  • PARALLEL IMPORTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1990, December 1990
    • 1 December 1990
    ...connection of buisness. It is the attractive source which brings in custom “per Lord Macnaughten in IRC v. Muller & Co. ‘s Margarine Ltd.[1901] A.C. 217 77 77 [1979] AC 731 78 An alternative formulation was put forward by Lord Fraser. He held that the 5 key elements were: (i) That the plain......
  • EQUITABLE REMEDIES: PROTECTING "WHAT WE HAVE COMING TO US".
    • United States
    • Notre Dame Law Review Vol. 96 No. 3, January 2021
    • 1 January 2021
    ...(Ca. Sup. Ct. Dec. 18, 2002). (70) Id. at *1. (71) Id. at *2. (72) Id. (73) Inland Revenue Comm'rs v. Muller & Co.'s Margarine, Ltd. [1901] AC 217 (HL) 224 (Eng.) (Lord (74) Robertson v. Quiddington (1860) 54 ER 469, 471 (Eng.). (75) See Rowe v. Toon, 169 N.W. 38 (Iowa 1918), where the ......
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