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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.
Read MoreArea of Law: Charities
Jonathan Fowles, led by Mark Sefton KC of Falcon Chambers and instructed by Mishcon de Reya LLP, acted for the successful claimants in Mohammed v Daji [2023] EWHC 2761 (Ch). The successful claim was to establish that a very substantial site at Abbey Mills in East London is held by the claimants on a charitable trust associated with a particular Sunni Muslim community in the London region. The judgment of HHJ Cadwallader, sitting as a Chancery Judge, is of significance for trusts and charities lawyers. In particular, the judgment sets out and applies the law relating to trusts established by charity appeals to a complicated factual history, and further develops the principle of delegated authority to declare charitable trusts in Attorney-General v Mathieson [1907] 2 Ch 383.
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Stephanie Wickenden (led by outside leading counsel) represented easyGroup in the Court of Appeal (having also appeared at trial). The appeal gave significant guidance on non-use, confusion and the defence of honest concurrent use.
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On 9 October 2023 the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in DnaNudge Ltd v Ventura Capital GP Ltd [2023] EWCA Civ 1142.
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Stephanie Wickenden and Stefano Braschi acted for easyGroup against the band Easy Life that was using imagery redolent of the airline. The band undertook to change its name. The case was widely reported in the popular press.
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The High Court (Richards J) has handed down its second judgment in Prescott Place Freeholders Limited v Batin & Donovan [2023] EWHC 1445 (Ch), in which Michael Walsh acted for the successful Claimants. This judgment deals with the consequential matters arising from the findings of fact at trial (see [2023] EHWC 435) (the “Trial Judgment”).
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Thomas Elias acted for the claimants in this cross-jurisdictional trade mark dispute arising in the context of a sale of shares in one of the defendant companies. At an interim hearing, the claimants resisted applications for a stay and for security for costs, and obtained an unless order against the defendants.
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Mr Justice Richards' judgment in Prescott Place Freeholders Limited & Others v Batin & Donovan [2023] EHWC 435 is essential reading for those interested in tenants’ rights of first refusal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987. Michael Walsh acted for the successful Claimants.
Read MoreArea of Law: Civil Fraud
The Singapore International Commercial Court (International Judge Bergin) has today handed down judgment following the trial of the dispute between Bidzina Ivanishvili and other plaintiffs and Credit Suisse Trust Limited. The claim stemmed from the long-running fraud committed by Patrice Lescaudron, an employee of Credit Suisse Bank in Geneva.
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