Harrods Ltd v Harrodian School Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1996
Year1996
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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  • Robyn Rihanna Fenty and Others v Arcadia Group Brands Ltd (t/a Topshop) and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 31 July 2013
    ...referred me to the words of Jacob J (as he then was) in Hodgkinson v Wards Mobility [1995] FSR 169 and of the Court of Appeal in Harrods v Harrodian School [1996] RPC 697 about the significance of deception in passing off. Jacob J emphasised that the tort of passing off has never shown even......
  • J Sainsbury Plc v Active: 4Life Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom)
    • Invalid date
  • McDonald's Corp v Future Enterprises Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 3 November 2004
    ...class 42 in respect of “restaurant and catering services”. As so pithily put by Millett LJ in Harrods Limited v Harrodian School Limited [1996] RPC 697 (“Harrodian School”) at 712, “to be known to everyone is not to be known for 55 Here we would refer to two Canadian cases. First is McDonal......
  • Robert Perkins and Keith Thomas Shone and Retriever Sports Ltd and Thomas Pope
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 8 October 2004
    ...formulation in the speech of Lord Oliver in the Jif Lemon case, Reckitt & Colman Products Ltd v Borden Inc. [1990] RPC 341 at 406. In the Harrodian case (which I will consider in a little detail later – see paragraphs 43 to 46 below) Millett LJ encapsulated the formulation by saying that Lo......
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4 books & journal articles
  • The Intersection between Registered and Unregistered Trade Marks
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 35-3, September 2007
    • 1 September 2007
    ...Telecommunications Plc v One in a Million Ltd [1998] 4 All ER 476, 496-7 (Aldous LJ); Harrods Ltd v Harrodian School Ltd [1996] RPC 697, 715–16 (Millett LJ); see further Hazel Carty, 'Dilution and Passing Off: A Cause for Concern' (1996) 112 Law Quarterly Review 632. Adding to the uncertain......
  • Residual Goodwill — A case of discontinued marks: Beiersdorf AG v Koni Multinational Brands (Pty) Ltd
    • South Africa
    • Juta South Africa Mercantile Law Journal No. , June 2021
    • 10 June 2021
    ...SA [1999] 3 CMLR 427, [2000] RPC572, [1999] All ER (D) 1007 (European Court of Justice) para 23. See also Harrods Ltd vHarrodian School [1996] RPC 697 (CA) 712, where counsel had argued: ‘In this case the beliefengendered [in the minds of the public] is probably that Harrods sponsor or back......
  • A critique of legal measures of brand confusion
    • United Kingdom
    • Emerald Journal of Product & Brand Management No. 11-6, November 2002
    • 1 November 2002
    ...or that someone other thanthe actual producer has assumed responsibility for the quality of the goods(Harrods Ltd v. Harrodian School Ltd [1996] RPC 697). However, even ifconfusion can be shown, compensation will not automatically followbecause the court needs to be convinced that the manuf......
  • Intellectual Property Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2004, December 2004
    • 1 December 2004
    ...that the applicant”s business is connected with the opponent”s. For this principle, Ang J cited Harrods Limited v Harrodian School Limited[1996] RPC 697, a case on passing off, as authority: see also CDL Hotels International Ltd v Pontiac Marina Pte Ltd[1998] 2 SLR 550 at [63]—[66]. Ang J f......

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