NIPC Law

  Jane Lambert UK Supreme Court (Lords Hodge, Briggs, Hamblen and Stephens and Lady Rose)    Iconix Luxembourg Holdings SARL v Dream Pairs Europe Inc and another [2025] UKSC 25 (24 Jun 2025) This was an appeal by Dream Pairs Europe Inc. and Top Glory Trading Group Inc. ("Dream Pairs") against the Court of Appeal's judgment in  Iconix Luxembourg Holdings SARL v Dream Pairs Europe Inc and another   [2024] EWCA Civ 29, [2024] RPC 10 which I discussed in Trade Marks - Iconix's Appeal on 5 Feb 2025.  The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal by Iconix Luxembourg Holdings SARL ("Iconix") against Mr Justice Miles's dismissal of Iconix's claim for trade mark infringement under s.10 (2) and (3)  of the Trade Marks Act 1994 in    Iconix Luxembourg Holdings SARL v Dream Pairs Europe Inc and another   [2023] RPC 15, [2023] EWHC 706 (Ch). I wrote about Mr Justice Miles's judgment in  Trade Marks - Iconix Luxembourg Holdings SARL v Dream ...

Royal Courts of Justice Author Anthony M   Licence   CC BY 2.0 Dee d Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Arnold and Nugee and Sir Christopher Floyd) easyGroup Ltd v Nuclei Ltd and others   [ 2023] EWCA Civ 1247 (27 Oct 2023) This was an appeal by easyGroup Ltd. ("easyGroup") against the order of Mrs Justice Bacon in  easyGroup Ltd v Nuclei Ltd and others [2022] EWHC 901 (Ch) of 13 April 2022,  She dismissed easyJet's claim for trade mark infringement and revoked the marks on which it had relied.  Those marks were  UK trade mark No. 2313529A  and  EU trade marks Nos. 2907509  and  11624376 .  The appeal came on before Lords Justices Arnold and Nugee and Sir Christopher Floyd on 10 and 11 Oct 2023.  The hearing was filmed and can be viewed on YouTube (see the first day of the hearing  and the second day ).    At the end of the hearing, the Court announced tha...

  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...