Unilever Plc's Trade Mark

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1980
Year1980
CourtChancery Division
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11 cases
  • Kabushiki Kaisha Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. v Nuplayer Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 14 July 2005
    ...not and cannot ever rely upon them as a "badge of origin") during the sale transaction: see Unilever's (Striped Toothpaste) Application [1980] FSR 280. The answer certainly is not "acte claire" in Sony's favour, and it may be that this case will require a reference to the European Court onc......
  • Hormel Foods Corporation v Antilles Landscape Investments NV
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 24 January 2005
    ...an appeal on the grounds that the device was not a trade mark within the meaning of the Trade Marks Act 1938 and was not distinctive ( [1984] RPC 155). In 1977 the applicant applied to register three devices, one of which was very similar but not identical to the device the subject of the 1......
  • Cheng Kang Pte Ltd and Others v Sze Jishian
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 31 March 1992
    ...occasions, my attention was invited to a number of decisions and I propose to deal with a few of them.In Unilever PLC`s Trade Mark, [1984] RPC 155 Unilever applied to register a device mark in Part A of the register which consisted of a slug of red and white toothpaste being extruded from t......
  • Discovery Holdings Ltd v Sanlam Ltd and Others
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...F The Canadian Shredded Wheat Co Ltd v Kellogg Co of Canada Ltd (1938) 55 RPC 125 (PC): dictum at 145 applied Unilever plc's Trade Marks [1984] RPC 155 (Ch): referred European Union Anheuser-Busch Inc v Budejovicky Budvar NP [2004] ECR I-10989 (ECJ): G referred to Lloyd Schuhfabrik Meyer & ......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Popular Names Index to UK Cases and EU Legislation and Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Legal Research. A Practitioner's Handbook - 3rd Edition Appendices
    • 30 August 2019
    ...SJ 701 (CA), reversing Chancery Division decision [1984] FSR 175 Striped Toothpaste Cases Unilever Ltd’s (Striped Toothpaste) Trade Mark [1980] FSR 280 (Ch) Unilever Ltd’s (Striped Toothpaste No 2) Trade Marks [1987] RPC 13 (Ch) Subcontractors Directive See Posted Workers Directive The Suez......

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