NIPC Law

The sign that appears above is registered as a trade mark for Meat, fish, poultry and game; meat extracts; preserved, dried and cooked fruits and vegetables; jellies, jams, compotes; eggs, milk and milk products; edible oils and fats; prepared meals; soups and potato crisps; canned foodstuffs; pizza toppings; preparations for making pizza toppings; dried preparations for use as pizza toppings; ingredients for making pizzas in class 29 in the name of Caspian Holding Franchise Limited under trade mark number 2,559,245 with effect from 21 Sept 2010. Until 12 Jan 2016 it had been registered to Behzad Zarandi ( Mr Zarandi" ) and Nadar Zand ( "Mr Zand" ). Until that date Mr Zarandi and Mr Zand also owned UK trade mark number 2,396,396 whereby the word CASPIAN had been registered for restaurant services, take-away food services and catering in services in class 43 with effect from 8 July 2005. Caspian Pizza Ltd.  ( "CP" ) run a chain of pi...

Amsterdam   Source Wikipedia According to Wikipedia  Red Bull is the most popular energy drink in the world, with 5.2 billion cans sold in 2012. Its manufacturer, Red Bull GmbH , has registered the RED BULL mark has registered those words and their accompanying logo as word and device marks in trade mark registries around the world including the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property ( "BOIP" ) . The company registered that sign with BOIP for non-alcoholic drinks in class 32 with effect from 11 July 1983. After decades of massive sales and extensive advertising nobody could argue that that mark has a reputation within the meaning of art 5 (2) of the Trade Marks Directive (Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 22 October 2008   to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks OJ 8.11.2008 p 299/25).  S.10 (3) of our Trade Marks Act 1994   implements that provision. There is in the Net...

On 5 Nov 2009 Oracle America Inc, which was then known as Sun Microsystems Inc. ( "Oracle" ), applied to Mr. Justice Kitchin for summary judgment against M-Tech Data Ltd. ( "M-Tech" ) (see Sun Microsystems Inc v M-Tech Data Ltd and another [2010] 2 CMLR 7, (2010) 33(2) IPD 33010, [2010] ETMR 13, [2009] EWHC 2992 (Pat), [2010] FSR 9). Oracle is the registered proprietor of a series of UK and Community trade marks comprising or consisting of the word "Sun" in respect of, inter alia, computers, computer hardware, computer software and computer peripherals.   M-Tech, which supplies computer hardware in what has been described as the secondary market for hardware, had purchased 64 Sun disc drives from a broker in the USA, imported them into the UK and sold them to a business called KSS Associates. Oracle contended that those disc drives were put on the market by M-Tech in the UK without its consent and thereby infringed its British and Community trade marks. ...