Trade Marks and Copyright - AGA Rangemaster Group Ltd v UK Innovations Group Ltd
Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Mr Nicholas Caddick KC) AGA Rangemaster Group Ltd v UK Innovations Group Ltd and another [2024] EWHC 1727 (IPEC) (8 July 2024) UK Innovations Group Ltd . ("UKIG") describes itself on its website as "a progressive, dynamic, energetic, obsessive and innovative business turning the heat storage range cooker concept on its head.". It has developed an electronic control ("eControl") system which it installs in heat storage range cookers known as "Stone Cookers ". However, its eControl systems can also be fitted to AGA cookers that have been converted from fossil fuel heat sources to electricity. UKIG has converted 26 second-hand AGA cookers to electric power with eControl systems and offered them for sale under both AGA and eControl branding as in the photos above. AGA Rangemaster Group Ltd ("ARG") objects to UKIG's marketing and has brought trade mark and copyright infringement pr...