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Lord Justice Arnold's Guidance on Trade Mark Law in the Lidl v Tesco Appeal

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Sir Richard Arnold Author Dakej2point3   Licence CC BY-SA 4.0  Deed   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lord Justices Lewison, Arnold and Birss) Lidl Great Britain Ltd and Another v Tesco Stores Ltd and Anothe r (Rev1) [2024] EWCA Civ 262 (19 March 2024) Yesterday I discussed the Court of Appeal's judgment in  Lidl Great Britain Ltd and Another v Tesco Stores Ltd and Anothe r  (Rev1) [2024] EWCA Civ 262 (19 March 2024) in Trade Marks - The Appeal in Lidl v Tesco .  I explained that Lord Justice Arnold had delivered the lead judgment which consisted of 196 paragraphs.  He set out the grounds of the appeal by Tesco Stores Ltd and Tesco Plc ("Tesco") against Mrs Justice Joanna Smith's findings on trade mark infringement and passing off at para [122] and its grounds of appeal against her findings on copyright infringement at para [188]. Paras [123] to [161] addressed the appeal against the judge's findings on passing off, para...