A User's Guide to Trade Marks and Passing Off

by Nicholas Caddick KC, Ben Longstaff, Jamie Muir Wood, Charlotte Duly

Overview

Focuses on the current law relating to the protection of registered trademarks and certain related rights. This includes registered trade marks, well-known trade marks, certification marks, collective marks, protested geographical origin indicators, international conventions, and passing off.

There is clear explanation of the underlying principles and concepts with a breakdown of procedural matters, thereby helping to tie the different areas together.

Individual topics covered include:
Kit-Kat - when can 3D shape marks benefit from 'acquired distinctiveness'?
Whether colours may form part of 3D shape marks - Louboutin
Infringement by 'wrong way round' confusion
Limitations on the own-name defence
Calculation of damages, and the availability of blocking injunctions

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Intellectual Property and IT online service.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526511560
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/20/2021
Series:	A User's Guide to... Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	664
File size:	821 KB

About the Author

Nicholas Caddick KC, Ben Longstaff and Jamie Muir Wood are all members of Hogarth Chambers, a set with a strong reputation in the field of intellectual property law.

Charlotte Duly specialises in the protection, maintenance and enforcement of trade marks, including brand clearance, along with domain name issues and the protection of designs.
Nicholas Caddick KC of Hogarth Chambers, a set with a strong reputation in the field of intellectual property law.
Ben Longstaff of Hogarth Chambers, a set with a strong reputation in the field of intellectual property law.
Jamie Muir Wood of Hogarth Chambers, a set with a strong reputation in the field of intellectual property law.
Charlotte Duly specialises in the protection, maintenance and enforcement of trade marks, including brand clearance, along with domain name issues and the protection of designs.
Charlotte has over 15 years experience of managing a number of large clients with global trade mark portfolios, including clearing new brands and devising protection and enforcement strategies, along with oppositions and cancellation actions, settlement negotiations, mediation, coexistence agreements and assignments.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 What is a trade mark?
Chapter 3 Other kinds of mark-collective and certification marks, and protected descriptions
Chapter 4 Absolute grounds for refusal
Chapter 5 Relative grounds for refusal of registration; trade mark functions; honest concurrent use
Chapter 6 Classification
Chapter 7 UK procedure for the registration of a trade mark
Chapter 8 Application procedure before EUIPO
Chapter 9 International conventions-the Madrid System
Chapter 10 Representation
Chapter 11 Invalidity
Chapter 12 Revocation
Chapter 13 Ownership of and dealings with trade marks
Chapter 14 Infringement and parties to infringement actions
Chapter 15 Defences, disclaimers and limitations
Chapter 16 Comparative and misleading advertising, and malicious falsehood
Chapter 17 Remedies
Chapter 18 Groundless threats
Chapter 19 Criminal offences
Chapter 20 Passing off
Chapter 21 Olympic symbols
Appendices
Appendix 1 Trade Marks Act 1994
Appendix 2 Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the European Union trade mark (codification)
Appendix 3 Directive (EU) 2015/2436 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks