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Walton v Verweij [2018] EWHC 1608 (Ch)28 June 2018Charlotte May QC and Jaani Riordan appeared for the defendant in this trial relating to trade mark infringement and validity, and passing off. The claimants claimed that the defendant had infringed their UK and EU trade marks comprising the word GIORDANO, used in relation to clothing. The defendant denied infringement and counterclaimed for revocation and/or […]
Conversant v Huawei [2018] EWHC 808 (Pat)23 May 2018Adrian Speck QC, Isabel Jamal and Thomas Jones appeared for the Claimant, Conversant, in the Defendants’ challenge to the jurisdiction of the English court. Conversant’s claim is for patent infringement by the Defendants, and seeks the determination of a FRAND licence as part of its claimed relief. The Defendants argued that the English court had no jurisdiction, first on […]
FIL Ltd v Fidelis Underwriting Ltd [2018] EWHC 1097 (Ch)11 May 2018Charlotte May QC appeared for the defendants in this trial relating to trade mark infringement and validity, and passing off. The claimant alleged that the defendants had infringed trade marks containing the word FIDELITY, registered in respect of financial, insurance and investment services, by their use of the sign FIDELIS for insurance underwriting services. The defendants counterclaimed for […]
Opinion of the Advocate General in Teva v Gilead SPC case25 April 2018On 25 April 2018, Advocate General Wathelet gave his opinion in Teva and others v Gilead Case C-121/17, referred to the CJEU by Arnold J last year. This important case, in which the CJEU sat, unusually, in a Grand Chamber, considered again the interpretation of Article 3(a) of the Supplementary Protection Certificate Regulation and the conditions for […]
Community Plant Variety Office: Pixley Berries (Juice) Limited v Lucozade Ribena Suntory Limited26 March 2018Andrew Lykiardopoulos QC appeared on behalf of Lucozade Ribena Suntory before the Community Plant Variety Office in its successful resistance of Pixley Berries’ application for a compulsory licence in respect of the blackcurrant plant variety ‘Ben Starav’ used in Ribena. It is the first time an application for a compulsory licence has been made under Article […]