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Bettys and Taylors Group Ltd v Rivington Foods Limited (IPO)13 August 2013Trade Mark Registry Opposition. The well known Betty’s Tearooms of Harrogate, York and Ilkley opposed Rivington Foods Limited’s Application for a UK trade mark for “Chocolately Rascal” for chocolate biscuits. Betty’s opposition was based on its earlier trade marks for “Little Rascal”, “Fat Rascal” and “Yorkshire Fat Rascal” for similar and identical goods. Betty’s had […]
Resolution Chemicals v H Lundbeck A/S [2013] EWCA Civ 92431 July 2013Michael Tappin QC and Mark Chacksfield recently appeared in the Court of Appeal acting for the successful respondent in Resolution Chemicals Ltd v H Lundbeck A/S [2013] EWCA Civ 924. The appeal was brought against the decision of Mr Justice Arnold, in which he held inter alia that Resolution was not estopped from bringing an […]
Sudarshan Chemical Industries Ltd v Clariant Produkte GmbH [2013] EWCA Civ 91930 July 2013Martin Howe QC and Henry Ward appeared in the Court of Appeal for Sudarshan, successfully resisting an appeal by Clariant from the Patents Court decision [2012] EWHC 1569 (Ch). The case concerned a pigment and its crystal forms. Clariant owned patents in Europe and elsewhere (the “First Patents”) which disclosed the new pigment and a […]
HTC v Gemalto [2013] EWHC 1876 (Pat)10 July 2013James Mellor QC and Michael Tappin QC recently appeared in the High Court in HTC v Gemalto [2013] EWHC 1876 (Pat), James Mellor QC appearing for the Defendant alongside Guy Burkill QC and Miles Copeland, and Michael Tappin QC appearing for the Claimant with Ben Longstaff. The case concerned an action for revocation of two […]
Evegate Publishing Limited v Newsquest Media (Southern) Limited [2013] EWHC 1975 (Ch)10 July 2013John Baldwin QC and Isabel Jamal recently appeared in the High Court for the successful defendant in Evegate Publishing Limited v Newsquest Media (Southern) Limited [2013] EWHC 1975 (Ch). The case concerned the publishing of a farming newspaper by the defendant, initially called ‘Southern Farmer’ and later called ‘The Southern Farmer’. The claimant alleged that […]