NIPC Law

Author Martin E Walder   Licence CC BY-SA  3.0   Source Cryptocurrency   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon) Wirex Ltd v Cryptocarbon Global Ltd and others [2021] EWHC 617 (IPEC) (16 March 2021) This was an action for trade mark infringement and a counterclaim for a declaration that the registration of that mark was invalid and passing off.  The action and counterclaim came on for trial before His Honour Judge Hacon on 26 Jan 2021.  His Honour dismissed the counterclaim and gave judgment to the claimant on 16 March 2021 (see  Wirex Ltd v Cryptocarbon Global Ltd and others [2021] EWHC 617 (IPEC) (16 March 2021). The Mark The mark in suit was  CRYPTOBACK  which the claimant Wirex Ltd,  had registered for a large range of goods and services in classes 9, 36 and 42 under registration number UK00003307327 with effect from 28 April 2018.  Wirex used that mark in relation to a credit card incentive ...

Author Basher Eyre Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Recorder Amanda Michaels)  KBF Enterprises Ltd v Gladiator Nutrition 3.0Ltd and Others   [2018] EWHC 3041 (IPEC) This was an action for trade mark infringement and passing off .  There was also a counterclaim for a declaration that the trade marks were invalid and for a finding that the claimant was passing itself off as connected with the third defendant, Mr Daniel Singh. The Dispute The claimant carried on business as Bodybuilding Warehouse .  It claims to be "the number one bodybuilding supplements website and manufacturer in the UK" and has registered the following word marks: WARRIOR SUPPLEMENTS WARRIOR BLAZE WARRIOR FAT BURNER , and WARRIOR . All of those marks were registered for food supplements and some for foods or other goods.  Bodybuilding Warehouse compl...