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Victoria Plums Author Rasbak Source Wikipedia Creative Commons Licence Victoria Plum Ltd (t/a Victoria Plumb) v Victorian Plumbing Ltd and Others [2016] EWHC 2911 (Ch) (18 Nov 2016) Mr Justice Henry Carr In this case, Victoria Plum Ltd . had registered the words VICTORIA PLUMB as a UK trade mark in relation to a range of goods and services in classes 11, 20 and 35 under trade mark number 3,066,332. The specified services include: "the bringing together, for the benefit of others, of…[bathroom items]… enabling customers to conveniently view and purchase those goods… via a website." The question before Mr Justice Henry Carr was whether that trade mark was infringed by a process known as pay-per-click bidding. Pay-Per-Click Bidding Just about everyone who has ever used the internet will be familiar with Google, Yahoo and other search engines. Whenever a user wants to search the internet he or she enters search terms that the user thinks...