Reports of Trade Mark Cases for CIPA June 2024

Published

Jun 28 2024

Written By

Aaron Hetherington

Associate
UK

I am a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney in our London Intellectual Property team, specialising in brand management.

Katharine Stephens

Partner
UK

I am fascinated by IP and the challenge of helping my clients protect, exploit and defend their IP rights to further their business objectives.

Practices

Regions

Western Europe

Countries

We report on the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Montres Breguet v Samsung, which determined whether Samsung was liable for infringement based on third party watch face apps downloadable from Samsung’s Galaxy App Store. We also report on the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Quantum Advisory v Quantum Actuarial, which held that the ownership of a trade mark registration could be rectified under equitable principles. We also report on a judgment of the High Court which determined a preliminary issue of which characteristics of the parties’ products were being compared in comparative advertisements.

Read the report here