Passing off - GFS Flex Ltd v Brymec Ltd
By Fulvio Spada from Torino, Italy - Ochre quarry, Roussillon, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40012791 Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Nugee) GFS Flex Ltd v Brymec Ltd [2020] EWHC 1907 (Ch) (17 July 2020) This was an application for an interim injunction in an action for passing-off. The claimant and applicant, GFS Flex Ltd ("GFS"), imports corrugated stainless steel tubing ("CSST") gas pipes and fittings that are manufactured by the Turkish company Bes Yapi Ürünleri Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Sirkayi and distributes them in the UK. Those pipes and fittings have a yellow plastic clip. GFS alleges that that clip distinguishes the pipes and fittings that it supplies from the pipes and fittings of all other suppliers. The defendant and respondent, Brymec Ltd ("Brymec") has begun to sell CSST gas fittings made by another Turkish company ...