Trade Marks - Morley's (Fast Foods) Ltd. v Nanthakumar and others
Author Edward Hards Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Melissa Clarke) Morley's (Fast Foods) Ltd v Sivakumar and others [2024] EWHC 1369 (IPEC) (10 June 2024) This is one of the first accessory liability cases since the Supreme Court's judgment in Lifestyle Equities CV and another v Ahmed and Another [2024] UKSC 17 on 15 May 2024 which I discussed in Trade Marks: Lifestyle Equities v Ahmed on 2 June 2024 and in Another Beverly Hills Polo Club Appeal in NIPC Branding on 4 June 2024. The claimant is the franchisor of the Morley's chain of fast food outlets which operate mainly in London. The seventh defendant, Kunalingam Kunatheeswaran, franchises a competing fast food chain called "Metro's". The other defendants were his franchisees The claimant complained that Metro's signage infringed its trade marks and misreprese...