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Area of Law: Intellectual Property
Michael Edenborough KC and Stephanie Wickenden successfully represented easyGroup on appeal in easyGroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd. Having established infringement under s.10(3) for some of the Defendants’ signs, the Court of Appeal confirmed that passing off should also have been found. The judgment, given by Lord Justice Arnold, gives interesting guidance on lost licensing revenue as a head of damage under passing off. The Court of Appeal also overturned a declaration of infringement granted by the trial judge in respect of the signs not found to infringe. The Court imposed its own much narrower declaration.
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Judgment has been handed down by Mr Justice Adam Johnson after a trial over three weeks this summer in the Chancery Division of the High Court. The Foundation’s claims had been struck out in 2018, but then restored by the High Court in [2019] EWHC 274 (Ch) in a ruling upheld by the Court of Appeal in [2020] EWCA Civ 32; [2020] 1 WLR 1627; [2020] 2 All ER 965.
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Michael Edenborough KC acted for Oatly in a High Court appeal from the UK IPO concerning the use of the word 'milk' in the trade mark 'Post Milk Generation', which is used on the packaging of some of Oatly’s oat based products.
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Stephanie Wickenden acted for Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Trevor Nunn, securing summary judgment against a claim brought against them by a former dancer claiming copyright in “Memory” from the musical “Cats”.
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The Court of Appeal has handed down its judgment in Ntzegkoutanis v Kimionis [2023] EWCA Civ 1480.
Read MoreMichael Edenborough KC and Gareth Tilley acted for the successful Claimant in the infamous “Red London Bus” copyright case concerning the copying of a composite photograph.
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Michael Edenborough KC acted for Crafts on this important procedureal case about whether post IP Completion Day amendments can relate back to an action started before then. Permission to appeal to the CoA has been granted.
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Thomas Elias acted for Aldi in this registered design case concerning the Christmas illuminated snow-globe Gin Bottle. Michael Edenborough KC led Thomas in the appeal.
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Michael Edenborough KC, leading Gwilym Harbottle of Hogarth Chambers and John Eldridge of Serle Court, acted for the successful claimant in securing service of the originating documents by email. This case provided clear guidance of what previously was an unclear procedure.
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