Having just purchased a pair of UGG boots from a website UGGBOOTSFORALL.COM.AU for my daughter’s birthday, I am surprised to hear they are not the genuine article. If I had been less busy, I might have delved more deeply before buying – particularly as most of the sites offering UGG boots on the web were [...]
Posts Tagged ‘trademark infringement’
Beware keywords in Google Ads
It is interesting to hear Marks and Spencer is being sued by Interflora for using Interflora’s brand in their Google advertising. I would hazard a guess that in many organisations the people at the top and the legal department are rarely aware of what is going on on the ground. Otherwise, why else has [...]
Bottle Battle between Brooklyn Brewery and Belgians
When finding out his bottle was a possible infringement of the Westmalle Belgian ringed bottle (trademark rights in which had been assigned to the New Belgium Company in Colorado) Mr Hindy, the owner of the Brooklyn Brewery was happy to withdraw the similar bottle design his designer had come up with for the Brooklyn Local [...]
Trademark infringement – an interesting argument
When police and trading standards officers raided his home they found 1,640 DVDs of feature films, 457 DVDs of pornography and 232 music CDs, all of them pirated, and bearing the logos of EMI and other companies. The man’s defence stated: “The material bearing the trade marks was of such poor quality that no one [...]
