Hodgkinson and Corby Ltd and Another v Wards Mobility Services Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date20 July 1994
Date20 July 1994
CourtChancery Division
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  • Whirlpool Corporation and Others v Kenwood Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 4 August 2008
    ...or customers.Neither the market nor the customers are the plaintiff's to own': Hodgkinson & Corby Ltd v. Wards Mobility Ltd [1994] 1 WLR 1564 (Jacob J.) at 108 Reckitt & Colman Products Ltd v. Borden Inc [1990] RPC 341 (HL) at 406 per Lord Oliver of Aylmerton and 417 per Lord Jauncey of Tu......
  • L'Oréal SA and Others v Bellure NV (Case C-487/07)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 May 2010
    ...that existing English authorities had indicated that development was possible. 137 Now at first instance I said in Hodgkinson & Corby Ltd v Wards Mobility Services Ltd [1994] 1 WLR 1564: “At the heart of passing off lies deception or its likelihood, deception of the ultimate consumer in pa......
  • L'Oréal SA and Others v Bellure NV (Case C-487/07)
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 4 October 2006
    ...the tort of passing off. I consider that the law is still as stated by Jacob J in Hodgkinson & Corby Ltd v Wards Mobility Services Ltd [1994] 1 WLR 1564: "At the heart of passing off lies deception or its likelihood, deception of the ultimate consumer in particular. Over the years passing ......
  • The London Taxi Corporation Ltd trading as the London Taxi Company v Frazer-Nash Research Ltd and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 20 January 2016
    ...The claimant must prove that the shape of its goods has come to denote a particular source to the relevant public: see Hodgkinson & Corby Ltd v Wards Mobility Ltd [1994] 1 WLR 1564 at 1573–4. In that case Jacob J asked whether: 'the plaintiffs have proved that the shape of their cushion is......
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