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Trade Marks - Engineer Ai Global Ltd v Appy Pie Ltd.

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Author Judicial Office Licence CC BY-SA 4.0   Source   Wikimedia Commons    Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Melissa Clarke) Engineer AI Global Ltd v Appy Pie Ltd and another   [2024[ EWHC 1430 (IPEC) 19 June 2024 This was the trial of an action for trade mark infringement and a counterclaim for invalidation of the claimant's marks.  The claimant offers software platforms that enable users with no programming skills to develop applications without coding through graphical user interfaces.  It carries on business as "Builder AI" over a website at https://www.builder.ai/. The first defendant is an English company that is owned and directed by Shagun Gupta. That lady is the wife of Abhinav Girdhar, a partner of the second defendant Appy Pie LLP which is incorporated in India.  The second defendant also helps users without programming expertise to develop applications through its website at https:/...

Trade Marks and Passing Off: Supreme Petfoods Ltd v Henry Bell & Co (Grantham) Ltd

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The Inn Sign for the Beehive public house in  Grantham Photo Wikipedia The Lincolnshire town of Grantham educated one of the world's greatest scientists and the first woman to be British prime minister (see  "Frit" - Merck Sharp Dohme Corp v Teva Pharma BV   25 March 2012). It has a magnificent parish church and is home to Chantry Dance Company which is very special to me as you will see from the last video clip in  Chantry Dance Company's Sandman and Dream Dance   10 May 2014 Terpsichore if you read that far. It has a pub called The Beehive with a real beehive for the pub sign (how's that for imaginative branding). Each Autumn it holds a science and arts festival in honour of Sir Isaac Newton called Gravity Fields (see  Gravity Fields Festival - there's much more to Grantham than Mrs T   8 Aug 2014 East Midlands IP). So you might think that the good people of Grantham would be very interested in intellectual prope...