Marks & Spencer Plc v One in a Million Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 28 November 1997 |
| Date | 28 November 1997 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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14 cases
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British Telecommunications Plc v One in A Million Ltd
...summary judgment under O.l4 as the defendants had threatened to pass off and infringe the registered trade marks of the plaintiffs (1998) FSR 265. 2In each case the first defendant was One In A Million Limited, a company owned and controlled by its two directors, Mr Conway and Mr Nicholson......
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Annette Phyllis Sewell Claimant v Joseph Allain Stephanie Allain Defendants [ECSC]
...on around them at the time when they were making the contract: per Staughton LJ in Scottish Power plc v Brittoil Exploration Ltd. The Times December 2, 1997. 69 Earl Loreburn in F. A. Tamplin S. S. Co. Ltd v Anglo Mexican Pertoleum Products Co., Ltd (1916) 2AC 403 at 404 opined: "A court ca......
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Vertical Leisure Ltd (Applicant/Claimant) v Poleplus Ltd and Another (Respondent/Defendant)
... ... 1 This is an application for summary judgment in an action for infringement of trade marks and passing off. The claimant, Vertical Leisure Limited, makes and sells pole exercise dance ... on the judgment of the Court of Appeal in British Telecommunications Plc v One in a Million Ltd [1999] 1 WLR 103; [1999] FSR 1. The facts of that case, at least to some extent, were similar ... which included the trading names of some very well-known businesses, including Marks & Spencer, Virgin and BT. Having done so, the defendants offered these domain names for sale for the owners ... ...
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1 firm's commentaries
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Disputes & Litigation Over Domain Names
...list. As to the question of using the domain name and what it means, the leading case on point is the famous 'One in a Million' case ([1998] FSR 265; The Times, December 2, 1997, at 8). In that case the English Court of Appeal rejected the argument of the defendant that since it had merely ......
8 books & journal articles
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Principles and policy in unlawful competition: An Aquilian mask?
...15.26.17. 97 27 of 1960. 98 See Pitman Training Ltd v Nominet UK [1997] FSR 797 (ChD) 807; Marks & Spencer plc v One in a Million Ltd [1998] FSR 265; British Telecommunications plc v One in a Million [1999] FSR 1 (CA); and Rembert Meyer-Rochow 'The application of passing off as a remedy aga......
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INTERPRETATION OF CONTRACTS AND THE ADMISSIBILITY OF PRE-CONTRACTUAL NEGOTIATIONS
...for example, National Bank of Sharjah v Dellborg, 9 July 1997, Court of Appeal, and Scottish Power plc v Britoil (Exploration) Ltd, The Times 2 December 1997. 10 See generally E McKendrick “The Interpretation of Contracts: Lord Hoffmann’s Re-Statement” in Commercial Law and Commercial Pract......
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RESOLVING DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES — A SINGAPORE PERSPECTIVE
...of the English Court of Appeal. The corresponding English High Court decision is reported as Marks & Spencer Plc v One in a Million Ltd[1998] FSR 265. 27 It should be noted, however, that the relevant English legislation is worded quite differently from the equivalent Singapore legislation ......
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Anisimova: The Legal Basis for Return to a Third Country in Irish Law
...more concerned with flight routes than atrocities of torture, degrading treatment or punishment against real individuals. 56 Irish Times, 2 December 1997....
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