Sign identical or similar to the Trade Mark
66.Next I must consider whether the sign complained of is identical, or similar, to the Trade Mark. In order to assess similarity and identity of marks I must undertake an objective comparison of the sign and the Trade Mark in relation to three aspects: visual, aural and conceptual. For there to be identity, I must find an objective coincidence in all three elements. 67.The Claimants’ primary case is that sign complained of is identical to the Trade Mark. Its secondary position, if I am not satisfied of identity, is that the sign complained of and Trade Mark are similar.68.The Claimant relies on the case of
- Sitting as a deputy Judge of the High Court
- Defendant
- INTRODUCTION
- Trade Mark
- CHRONOLOGY
- ISSUES
- title
- Section 10(2) TMA
- C-206/01 Arsenal Football Club plc v Matthew Reed
- Specsavers International Healthcare Ltd v Asda Stores Ltd
- Specsavers
- Maier
- Canon
- Interflora v Marks & Spencer
- Specsaver
- Section 10(3) TMA
- C-375/97 General Motors v Yplon
- link
- Intel Corporation Inc v CPM United Kingdom Ltd
- Red Bull GmbH v Sun Mark Limited and Sea Air & Land Forwarding Limited
- Intel Corporation
- Passing Off
- Reckitt & Colman Product v Borden
- [2013] FSR 21
- The National Guild of Removers and Storers Limited v Bee Moved Limited, Nicholas Anthony Burns and Oliver Christopher Robert Sampson
- Ewing v Buttercup Margarine Co
- Advocaat
- ANALYSIS OF ISSUES
- Average Consumer
- Use of the sign complained of
- Sign identical or similar to the Trade Mark
- LTJ Diffusion
- Jack Wills
- Stannard v Reay
- Sutherland v V2 Music Ltd
- QUANTUM OF DAMAGES
- SUMMARY
