The Impact of Brexit on Intellectual Property Rights in the United Kingdom
Impact of Brexit on IP rights in the United Kingdom.
Michael Coyle
April 20, 2017
Impact of Brexit on IP rights in the United Kingdom.
The owner of the “Tartan Army” trade marks failed this month to prevent a third party using the name without its permission. https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/search-judgments/judgment?id=3e6b2aa7-8980-69d2-b500-ff0000d74aa7
Ten men and one woman decide whether parliament or the government has the authority to trigger Brexit in a historic legal challenge.
The judgement from the constitutional law case of the century has been handed down and the right for the Government to appeal to the Supreme Court has been granted.
The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court put pay to Tala’s claim for passing off in the shape and get up of their measuring cups.
The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court considers a compromise agreement when determining if there has been any trade mark infringement or passing off.
Raft Ltd v Freestyle of Newhaven Ltd and others [2016] EWHC 1711 (IPEC), [2016] All ER (D) 64 (Jul) Facts: The claimant (Raft) was a
The uncertainty or exiting the EU has cast doubt in legal circles as to what law will remain. Trade mark law is no different, there is a great deal of uncertainty to the protection afforded to trade mark owners if the UK leaves and whether UK trade mark practitioners can still register trade marks in the EU if we leave.
Global Flood Defence Systems Ltd and another v Johann Van Den Noort Beheer B.V. and others [2016] EWHC 99 (IPEC), [2016] All ER (D) 17
After Uber, London taxi drivers lost again. This time for a claim for trade mark infringement and passing off. The Claimant London Taxi Corporation is the manufacturer of the well known London taxi and various similar models. Frazer-Nash Research Limited and Ecotive Limited ( The Defendants) manufactured a similar taxi Metrocab. The Claim concerns the shape of the Defendants’ taxi, which it contends has been substantially copied from the shape of their taxi yet it advanced no claim for infringement of any registered design, design right or copyright. Instead it claims infringement of its Trade Marks on three alternative bases as well as passing off.