IP-2020-000138 - [2023] EWHC 1455 (IPEC)

This an application by the defendants (“KnitPro”) for a stay of this claim pending the resolution of an application to cancel one of KnitPro’s trade marks in the European Union Intellectual Property Office (“EUIPO”). KnitPro relies on art.132(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 (“the Trade Mark Regulation”) and on CPR 3.1(2)(f).

Michael Edenborough KC appeared for the claimant (“Crafts”), Guy Hollingworth for KnitPro.