Morning Star Co-operative Society Ltd v Express Newspapers Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1979
CourtChancery Division
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  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN SINGAPORE: A GENERAL OVERVIEW1
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1992, December 1992
    • 1 December 1992
    ...[1990] 1 All E.R. 873 at p. 888. 165 Ibid. 166 See per Foster J. in Morning Star Co-Operative Society Ltd. v. Express Newspapers Ltd. [1979] F.S.R. 113. 167 See Reckitt & Colman Products Ltd. v. Borden Inc. [1990] 1 All E.R. 873 at p. 888. See also M.I. & M. Corp. v. Mohamed Ibrahim(1964) 3......
  • A critique of legal measures of brand confusion
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Product & Brand Management No. 11-6, November 2002
    • 1 November 2002
    ...law willnot protect inattentive consumers, or the ``moron in a hurry'' (Foster in MorningStar Co-operative Society v. Express Newspapers [1979] FSR 113, p. 117)). Asjudge's gauge confusion subjectively (presumably in their offices, or chambers),then they may be giving unwarranted emphasis t......
  • Intellectual Property Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2002, December 2002
    • 1 December 2002
    ...para 17—08). (f) The law is not concerned here with the “moron in a hurry” being confused (Morning Star Co-op Society v Express Newspapers[1979] FSR 113), but with confusion among “a substantial number of persons of ordinary care and intelligence” (Kellogg Co v Pacific Food Products, supra ......
  • Piercing the Power of the Patch: How Trademark Law Could Diminish the Power of Gang Insignia
    • United States
    • The Journal of World Intellectual Property No. 14-1, January 2011
    • 1 January 2011
    ...‘‘moron in a hurry’’ so beloved by elements of the passing-off bar: Morning Star Co-Operative Society Ltd. v. Express Newspapers Ltd., [1979] F.S.R. 113 (Ch. D.), at p. 117. Itis rather a mythical customer who stands somewhere in between, dubbed in a 1927 Ontariodecision of Meredith C.J. as......

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