Have you ever seen cheap imitation perfumes on sale at market stalls or on the internet? The ones that tend to look similar in their packaging or bottling to other up-market products? Well according to a recent decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) their manufacturers are in breach of trade mark law. Under [...]
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Trademark infringement – an interesting argument
When police and trading standards officers raided his home they found 1,640 DVDs of feature films, 457 DVDs of pornography and 232 music CDs, all of them pirated, and bearing the logos of EMI and other companies. The man’s defence stated: “The material bearing the trade marks was of such poor quality that no one [...]
