ICI Ltd v Berk Pharmaceuticals Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1981
CourtChancery Division
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  • Oracle America Inc. (formerly Sun Microsystems Inc.) v M-Tech Data Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 27 June 2012
    ...counterfeiters. This is a submission of truly remarkable breadth. In Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd v Berk Pharmaceuticals Ltd [1981] 2 CMLR 91, at [9], Sir Robert Megarry V-C characterised a somewhat similar argument as a proposal to treat a person guilty of collateral breaches of the t......
  • Inter Lotto (UK) Ltd v Camelot Group Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 6 June 2003
    ...off should fail: ex turpi cause non oritur actio. There has to be a nexus between the illegality and the claim for passing off: ICI v Berk [1981] FSR 1. However, it is difficult to think of a closer nexus than that the use relied upon in support of a passing off claim is an infringement of ......
  • Sportswear SpA v Four Marketing Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 April 2006
    ...is, I think, conveniently set out in the judgment of Sir Robert Megarry, V.C. in Imperial Chemical Industries v. Berk Pharmaceuticals, [1981] FSR 1, [1981] 2 CMLR 91, where he struck out a paragraph in the defence which pleaded that by reason of breaches of Article 86 (in that case) [now Ar......
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