Trade Marks - Automobile Club de L'Ouest v Omologato
By Mike Roberts from London, United Kingdom - IMG_0419 CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2307324 Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Mr David Stone) Automobile Club de L'Ouest (ACO) v Omologato Ltd and Anothe r [2026] EWHC 2265 (IPEC) (27 July 2026) This was an action for trade mark infringement. There was also a claim for passing off, but that cause of action was not relied upon in the end. The claimant, Automobile Club de L'Ouest ("ACO") , operates the 24-hour Le Mans endurance race . The first defendant, Omologato Limited (Omologato), designs, markets and sells watches with a motor racing theme. ACO objected to watches that had been supplied by Omologato bearing the signs "LE MANS", "LM" and "LMR." Claim against Mr Kalra The second defendant was Shami Kalra ("Mr Kalra"), a director of Omologato. Mr Kalra also registered the letters LMR as a trade mark for watche...