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  • Uber accused of trade mark infringement by Freightlink
    Posted by TMR TMR on January 29, 2021 / Posted in News
    On Friday 22nd January, Freightlink Inc. filed a complaint for trade mark infringement against new Uber service, Uber Freightlink, in the US District of Utah.
    On Friday 22 nd January, Freightlink Inc. filed a complaint for trade mark infringement against new Uber service, Uber Freightlink, in the US District of Utah.   Uber Freight, launched in 2017, expanded its trucking services to offer a new enterprise software product, Uber Freightlink in September 2020 to provide large shippers with direct access to their technology as a ‘central point of control for logistics operations’.   Freightlink, conducting business as Air & [...]
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  • 3M’s pandemic battle against fraudulent health care equipment
    Posted by TMR TMR on January 29, 2021 / Posted in News
    Global company 3M, a key supplier of PPE in health care, has seen a dramatic increase in production of counterfeit products
    Since the beginning of the pandemic, global company 3M, a key supplier of PPE in health care, has seen a dramatic increase in production of counterfeit products, including respirators and masks amongst other protective equipment.   3M’s trade mark chief, Colette Durst, claimed that by the beginning of 2020, it was clear that the company’s intellectual property team needed restructuring, replacing their previously broad approach with a COVID-19 specific one.  3M, with the [...]
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  • EU rule in favour of ‘BBQloumi’ over Halloumi Collective Mark
    Posted by TMR TMR on January 29, 2021 / Posted in News
    The General Court once again dismissed appeals from the Foundation for the Protection of the Traditional Cheese of Cyprus
    On Wednesday, after much debate throughout the European Courts, the General Court once again dismissed appeals from the Foundation for the Protection of the Traditional Cheese of Cyprus, proprietor of the collective mark ‘Halloumi’ registered for cheese.   The Cypriot association brought proceedings against Bulgarian Company, M. J. Dairies, opposing the registration of the trade mark ‘BBQloumi’ for cheese products, alleging a likelihood of confusion for consumers [...]
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  • Bentley told to destroy their clothing line after their 15-year trade mark battle
    Posted by TMR TMR on January 26, 2021 / Posted in News
    In November 2019, Volkswagen-owned luxury car maker Bentley was found by the High Court to have infringed the trade mark rights of Bentley Clothing, a Manchester-based fashion company founded in 1962.
    In November 2019, Volkswagen-owned luxury car maker Bentley was found by the High Court to have infringed the trade mark rights of Bentley Clothing, a Manchester-based fashion company founded in 1962.   Bentley Motors first approached Bentley Motors in 1998 concerning the trade mark ‘Bentley’ that the clothing firm had registered in 1982, and in 2018, after years of dispute and negotiations, launched proceedings in the High Court. Following the court ruling, Bentley Motors can [...]
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  • Supreme Court rejects Jack Daniel’s dog toy infringement case
    Posted by TMR TMR on January 18, 2021 / Posted in Trade Marks
    Supreme Court rejects Jack Daniel’s dog toy infringement case
    In September 2020, whiskey company Jack Daniel’s submitted an appeal to the US Supreme Court, asking a previous verdict ruling that a parody dog toy, designed to look similar to their classic bottle, did not infringe their trade marks. However, this week the court denied the case. The distiller was first taken to court by VIP Products LLC, the makers of the ‘Bad Spaniels Silly Squeakers’ toy in question in 2014, following a number of cease and desist letters sent from Jack [...]
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  • Nike and Converse file sweeping trade mark infringement lawsuit against 1200+ websites and social media accounts
    Posted by TMR TMR on January 18, 2021 / Posted in Trade Marks
    Nike and Converse file sweeping trade mark infringement lawsuit against 1200+ websites and social media accounts
    On Tuesday the 12 th of January, Nike and owned-company Converse filed a complaint in the United States District Court alleging 589 websites and 676 social media accounts have manufactured and marketed counterfeit, infringing products in an attempt to capitalise on some of the brands popular trade marks. The complaint states that each of the websites in question have or were within the past twelve months, advertising and selling counterfeit products from either brand to customers in the United [...]
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  • Thom Browne’s striped trade mark challenged
    Posted by TMR TMR on January 05, 2021 / Posted in Trade Marks
    In February 2020, New York-based fashion brand Thom Browne filed three trade mark applications registering intent to use a striped design on footwear.
    In February 2020, New York-based fashion brand Thom Browne filed three trade mark applications registering intent to use a striped design on footwear. Since, it has met opposition from renowned brands Adidas and Tommy Hilfiger. The design in question, although consisting of ‘five parallel stripes, with the centre stripe in white, the left adjacent stripe in red, the right adjacent stripe in blue, and with the two outermost stripes in white, with the two outermost stripes being narrower [...]
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  • Rock band Frontman’s lawsuit against British vodka makers dismissed
    Posted by TMR TMR on January 05, 2021 / Posted in Trade Marks
    Ghost Drinks Ltd, a Cambridge-based company producing hand-crafted premium vodka, found themselves the subject of a lawsuit against Svensk Drama Pop (SDP)
    At the start of 2020, Ghost Drinks Ltd, a Cambridge-based company producing hand-crafted premium vodka, found themselves the subject of a lawsuit against Svensk Drama Pop (SDP), a company owned by Swedish occult rock band GHOST’s front man Tobias Forge. Ghost Drinks first announced the conflict in May 2020 via a Facebook post, contending that Forge has been aware of the vodka brand since 2016 after approaching them to consider a collaboration. Ghost Drinks claimed they decided not to [...]
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  • Beauty brand glossier granted pink packaging trade mark
    Posted by TMR TMR on January 04, 2021 / Posted in Trade Marks
    Beauty brand glossier granted pink packaging trade mark
    A year and a half after New York-based beauty brand, Glossier, applied to register it’s ‘millennial pink’ product packaging, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on December 15 th  granted them registration for ‘the colour pink as applied to the inner surface of portions of boxes that contrast with the colour of the rest of the boxes’, where size and shape of the box constitutes no part of the mark. This aspect of contrast within the registration was [...]
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  • Michael Jordan fails to win full rights to his name in China
    Posted by TMR TMR on January 04, 2021 / Posted in Trade Marks
    Michael Jordan has failed to win full legal rights to use of his own name in China after filing 80 lawsuits against sports company Qiaodan Sports since 2012.
    Michael Jordan has failed to win full legal rights to use of his own name in China after filing 80 lawsuits against sports company Qiaodan Sports since 2012. However, Qiaodan, translating to ‘Jordan’, have been ordered to compensate the American basketball star $46,000 in emotional damages and $7,600 to cover legal expenses. This follows a ruling from the China’s Supreme Court in April 2020, overturning two verdicts from lower courts in favour of Qiaodan, ruling the sports [...]
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