Thermawear v Vedonis

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1982
CourtChancery Division
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8 cases
  • Super Coffeemix Manufacturing Ltd v Unico Trading Pte Ltd and Another and Another Appeal
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 27 June 2000
    ...a mark is descriptive it cannot be a trade mark: see Crosfield & Sons` Application [1909] 26 RPC 837 at 857 and Thermawear v Vedonis [1982] RPC 44. Or that it cannot become distinctive: see Reddaway v Banham [1896] AC 199. Part B of the Register caters specifically for such descriptive mark......
  • Symonds Cider English Wine Company Ltd v Showerings (Ireland) Ltd
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 10 January 1997
    ...2ED 142 SERIES 5 SOFTWARE LTD V CLARKE & ORS 1996 FSR 273 WESTMAN HOLDINGS LTD V MCCORMACK 1992 1 IR 151 THERMAWEAR LTD V VEDONIS LTD 1982 RPC 44 TRADE MARKS ACT 1996 SCHED 3 ART 3(3) TRADE MARKS ACT 1963 S17 TRADE MARKS ACT 1963 S17(2) TRADE MARKS ACT 1963 S16(b) TRADE MARKS ACT 1963 S40(......
  • Prysmian Cables & Systems Ltd v M/S Apple International
    • United Kingdom
    • Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
    • 7 September 2023
    ...What had happened to it was not transmigration but extinction.” The claim failed. This can be contrasted with Thermawear v Vedonis [1982] RPC 44, 66–67 upon which the Claimant relied. There the plaintiff had supplied underwear under the name THERMAWEAR. It had changed its branding and at th......
  • Decision Nº O/054/11 from Intellectual Property Office - (Trade market), 17 February 2011
    • United Kingdom
    • Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom)
    • 17 February 2011
    ...Industrial Co. Ltd v. Yap Kwee Kor [1976] F.S.R. 256 applied . Ad-Lib Ltd v. Granville [1972] R.P.C. 673 and Thermawear Ltd v. Vedonis [1982] R.P.C. 44 followed . H7. 2. The law of passing off protected the goodwill of a small business as much as the large, but the court would not intervene......
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