NIPC Law

  Jane Lambert Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, Intellectual Property List (Mrs Justice Joanna Smith) Lidl Great Britain Limited and another v Tesco Stores Ltd and another  [ 2023] EWHC 873 (Ch) (19 April 2023) This was an  action for trade mark and copyright infringement and passing off  brought by Lidl Great Britain Ltd and Lidl Stiftung & Co KG ("Lidl") against Tesco Stores Ltd and Tesco Plc ("Tesco").  There was also a counterclaim by Tesco for the invalidation and revocation of certain Lidl marks. The action and counterclaim came on for trial before Mrs Justice Joanna Smith on 7, 8, 9 and 14 Feb 2023. By para [316] of her judgment, which she handed down on 19 April 2023, her ladyship found for Lidl on its claim and for Tesco on part of its counterclaim  ( Lidl Great Britain Ltd and another v Tesco Stores Ltd and anothe r [2023] EWHC 873 (Ch) (19 April 2023). The Registrations Lidl is the registered proprietor of the following m...

Licence  CC0 1.0.   Source   Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, Intellectual Property List (ChD) (Sir Anthony Mann)  Easygroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd. and others [2022] EWHC 3327 (Ch) (21 Dec2022) This was an action for trade mark infringement and passing off  and a counterclaim for the revocation of some of the marks on which the claimant relied in respect of certain specified services.   The claimant, Easygroup Ltd ("Easygroup") , owned the marks listed in Appendix 1 to the judgment of Sir Anthony Mann in  Easygroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd and others [2022] EWHC 3327. Easygroup complained that Easy Live (Services) Ltd. ("ELA"), had infringed those marks by supplying computer software for use in auctions and conducting online auctions under the signs that appear in Appendix 2 to the judgment.  ELA sought to revoke  easyGroup ,  easyMoney ,  easyPropert y an...