Parker-Knoll Ltd v Knoll International

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1962
Date1962
Year1962
CourtHouse of Lords
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Are you entitled to trade under your own name?
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 19 Mayo 2017
    ...name" against an action for passing off and related statutory breaches. However, in Parker-Knoll Limited v Knoll International Limited (1962) RPC 265 it was generally established that notwithstanding the above common law "No man is entitled to describe his goods so as to represent them as t......
3 books & journal articles
  • Prior Use as a Ground of Opposition in South African Trade Mark Law
    • South Africa
    • Juta Stellenbosch Law Review No. , May 2019
    • 27 Mayo 2019
    ...indicia and used as if it meant that confusion of the parties of their goods or businesses could be treated on the same footing.”126 [1962] RPC 265.127 289 li ne 39. 128 Pass ing Off (1994) 46.129 [1990] RPC 341.130 See 416 line 52.131 [1995] FSR 169.132 An a spect not always appr eciated i......
  • Aspects of Passing Off in a Statutory Context in English and South African Law
    • South Africa
    • Juta South Africa Mercantile Law Journal No. , May 2019
    • 25 Mayo 2019
    ...Ltd supra note 78.92Supra note 19.93Supra note 25.94Idem at 397 l 18.95Supra note 19.96Idem at 496 l 41 – 47 l 2 (emphasis supplied).97[1962] RPC 265.98Idem at 289 l 39.99David Young Passing Off: The Law and Practice Relating to the Imitation of Goods, Businessesand Professions 3 ed (1994) ......
  • International Nonproprietary Names and Trademarks: A Public Health Perspective
    • United States
    • Wiley The Journal of World Intellectual Property No. 11-2, March 2008
    • 1 Marzo 2008
    ...IPLR 64.6F. Hoffman-la Roche & Co. Ltd v Geoffrey Manner & Co. Pvt. Ltd, MANU/SC/0302/1969. Parker Knoll Ltd v Knoll International Ltd [1962] RPC 265, 274.7SBL Ltd v Himalaya Drug Co. [1997] (17) (DB) PTC 555–8.8F. Hoffman-la Roche & Co. Ltd v Geoffrey Manner & Co. Pvt. Ltd, MANU/SC/0302/19......

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