Results: 24

• Adidas-Salomon AG v Fitnessworld Trading Ltd

  23 Oct 2003 (Case C-408/01); EU:C:2003:582; [2004] Ch 120; [2004] 2 WLR 1095, ECJ

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 53.
  TRADE MARK — Proprietor’s rights — Registered trade marks with reputation

  EUROPEAN UNION — Directive 89/104/EEC — Article 52
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  TRADE MARK — Proprietor’s rights — Registered trade marks with reputation — EC member states' option to grant protection in case of sign identical or similar to registered mark in relation to “not similar” goods or services — Whether member states exercising option obliged to provide for protection in case of identical or similar goods or services — Criteria for finding of similarity between sign and registered mark — Relevance of finding that sign viewed purely as embellishment — Council Directive 89/104/EEC, art 5(2)

  EUROPEAN UNION — Directive 89/104/EEC — Article 52 — Trade marks with a reputation — Protection against use of a sign in relation to identical or similar goods or services — Degree of similarity between the mark and the sign — Effect on the public — Sign viewed as an embellishment

  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

• Shield Mark BV v Kist (Shield Mark BV v Joost Kist h.o.d.n. Memex.)

  27 Nov 2003 (Case C-283/01); EU:C:2003:641; [2004] Ch 97; [2004] 2 WLR 1117; [2004] All ER (EC) 277, ECJ

  Subsequent citations: 10.
  TRADE MARK — Proprietor’s rights — Sound

  EUROPEAN UNION — Trade marks — Approximation of laws
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  TRADE MARK — Proprietor’s rights — Sound — Whether sound registrable as trade mark — Graphic representability — Whether representable by written description, onomatopoeia or musical notation — Council Directive 89/104/EEC, art 2

  EUROPEAN UNION — Trade marks — Approximation of laws — Directive 89/104/EEC — Article 2 — Signs of which a trade mark may consist — Signs capable of being represented graphically — Sound signs — Musical notation — Written description — Onomatopoeia

  1 Case considered

  1 EU Enactment considered
• In re OT Computers Ltd (Nagra v OT Computers Ltd, First National Tricity Finance Ltd v Ellis, First National Tricity Finance Ltd v OT Computers Ltd (In Administration))

  08 Oct 2003 [2003] EWHC 2490 (Ch); [2004] 1 All ER (Comm) 320; [2004] BPIR 195, Ch D (Sir Andrew Morritt VC)

  25 May 2004 [2004] EWCA Civ 653; [2004] Ch 317; [2004] 3 WLR 886; [2004] 2 All ER (Comm) 331; [2004] Lloyd's Rep IR 669; [2004] 2 BCLC 682; [2004] BPIR 932; The Times, 31 May 2004, CA (Jonathan Parker, Longmore and Maurice Kay LJJ)

  11 Oct 2004 (pet dis) [2004] 1 WLR 2854, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 20.
  INSURANCE — Third parties' rights — Extended warranty scheme

  STATUTE — Construction — Hansard
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  INSURANCE — Third parties' rights — Extended warranty scheme — Finance company supplying credit to purchasers of computers from supplier — Computers sold with extended warranty — Computer supplier in administration — Finance company fulfilling warranty obligations — Whether benefit of computer supplier's insurance transferred to finance company — Whether benefit transferred at date of insolvency — Whether finance company entitled to see computer supplier's insurance policies — Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 1930 (20 & 21 Geo 5, c 25), ss. 1, 2

  STATUTE — Construction — Hansard — Judge expressing view about intention of Parliament — Whether reference to reports of debates to be admitted in order to verify judge's view

  10 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council v Torkington

  31 Oct 2003 [2003] EWCA Civ 1634; [2004] Ch 66; [2004] 2 WLR 426; [2004] 4 All ER 238, CA

  29 Mar 2004 (pet dis) [2004] 1 WLR 1026, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  DEED — Execution — Delivery
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  DEED — Execution — Delivery — Conveyance of lease by local authority — Negotiations with purchaser marked “subject to contract” — Seal of local authority affixed to lease in anticipation of exchange — Purchaser failing to sign and return counterpart of lease — Whether lease “deemed to have been executed” — Whether deemed execution including or obviating need for delivery — Whether lease delivered as an escrow — Law of Property Act 1925, s 74

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Chappell v Somers & Blake

  08 Jul 2003 [2003] EWHC 1644 (Ch); [2004] Ch 19; [2003] 3 WLR 1233; [2003] 3 All ER 1076; [2003] PNLR 37; [2003] WTLR 1085; The Times, 2 September 2003, Ch D (Neuberger J)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 4.
  SOLICITOR — Negligence — Administration of estate
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  SOLICITOR — Negligence — Administration of estate — Solicitors instructed by executrix failing to administer estate — Estate properties remaining vacant and not transferred to residuary legatee — Probate subsequently granted and estate distributed to beneficiaries — Whether executrix entitled to claim damages from solicitors for loss of income on properties — Whether obliged to account to residuary legatee for any damages awarded

  3 Case(s) considered
• Libertel Groep BV v Benelux-Merkenbureau

  06 May 2003 (Case C-104/01); EU:C:2003:244; [2004] Ch 83; [2004] 2 WLR 1081; [2003] ECR I-3793, ECJ

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 3 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 54.
  TRADE MARK — Proprietor’s rights — Colour

  EUROPEAN UNION — Trade marks — Approximation of laws
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  TRADE MARK — Proprietor’s rights — Colour — Whether possible for colour per se to be trade mark — Whether capable of being sign — Whether capable of graphic representation — Whether capable of distinctive character — Council Directive 89/104/EEC, arts 2, 3

  EUROPEAN UNION — Trade marks — Approximation of laws — Directive 89/104/EEC — Signs capable of constituting a trade mark- Distinctive character — Colour per se — Orange

  1 Case considered

  1 EU Enactment considered
• Oxfordshire County Council v Oxford City Council

  22 Jan 2004 [2004] EWHC 12 (Ch); [2004] Ch 253; [2004] 2 WLR 1291, Ch D (Lightman J)

  24 Feb 2005 [2005] EWCA Civ 175; [2006] Ch 43; [2005] 3 WLR 1043; [2005] 3 All ER 961; [2005] LGR 664, CA

  24 May 2006 [2006] UKHL 25; [2006] 2 AC 674; [2006] 2 WLR 1235; [2006] 4 All ER 817; [2006] LGR 713, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 7 positive; 7 neutral. Subsequent citations: 106.
  COMMONS — Town or village green — Registration
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  COMMONS — Town or village green — Registration — Land used by local inhabitants for sport and recreation for more than 20 years — Whether requirement for use to continue until date of registration — Whether registration conferring rights of user on inhabitants — Whether bringing land within scope of pre-existing legislation applicable to greens — Whether permissible for registration authority to amend application for registration — Commons Registration Act 1965, ss 13, 22 (as amended by Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, s 98)

  13 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• In re Spectrum Plus Ltd (National Westminster Bank plc v Spectrum Plus Ltd)

  15 Jan 2004 [2004] EWHC 9 (Ch); [2004] Ch 337; [2004] 2 WLR 783; [2004] 1 All ER 981, Ch D

  26 May 2004 [2004] EWCA Civ 670; [2004] Ch 337; [2004] 3 WLR 503; [2004] 4 All ER 995, CA

  30 Jun 2005 [2005] UKHL 41; [2005] 2 AC 680; [2005] 3 WLR 58; [2005] 4 All ER 209; [2005] 2 Lloyd's Rep 275, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 4 neutral. Subsequent citations: 92.
  COMPANY — Debenture — Charge over book debts

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Court of Appeal decision — How far binding

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — House of Lords decision — Effect
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  COMPANY — Debenture — Charge over book debts — Charge expressed to be “by way of specific charge” prohibiting disposal of book debts and requiring proceeds to be paid into account with chargee bank — Bank permitting company to draw proceeds of debts from account to use in course of business subject to restrictions — Whether charge fixed or floating

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Court of Appeal decision — How far binding — Court of Appeal authority disapproved by Privy Council — Whether Court of Appeal authority binding

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — House of Lords decision — Effect — House of Lords overruling previous decision of lower court — Whether jurisdiction to overrule prospectively only

  12 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

• Bayoumi v Women’s Total Abstinence Union Ltd

  21 Jan 2003 [2003] EWHC 212 (Ch); [2003] Ch 283; [2003] 2 WLR 1287; [2003] 1 All ER 864, Ch D

  05 Nov 2003 [2003] EWCA Civ 1548; [2004] Ch 46; [2004] 2 WLR 181; [2004] 3 All ER 110, CA

  10 May 2004 (pet dis) [2004] 1 WLR 1394, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  CHARITY — Sale of trust property — Statutory requirements
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  CHARITY — Sale of trust property — Statutory requirements — Charity contracting to sell property — Non-compliance with statutory requirement to obtain survey before contract — Purchaser seeking specific performance of contract of sale — Statute validating “disposition” of land to purchaser in good faith — Whether uneffected contract “disposition” of land — Whether contract void — Charities Act 1993, s 37(4)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered
• Peer International Corpn v Termidor Music Publishers Ltd (Editora Musical de Cuba, Part 20 defendant)

  30 Jul 2003 [2003] EWCA Civ 1156; [2004] Ch 212; [2004] 2 WLR 849, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 8.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Confiscatory or political legislation — Intellectual property rights
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Confiscatory or political legislation — Intellectual property rights — Cuban law regulating exploitation of intellectual property rights in Cuban music — Law divesting claimants of United Kingdom copyright in Cuban music without compensation — Whether English courts to give effect to Cuban law — Whether public policy exception to lex situs rule

  4 Case(s) considered