The Business Law Reports
[2009] Bus LR D81
Chancery Division
Hotel Cipriani Srl and others v Cipriani (Grosvenor Street) Ltd and others
[2008] EWHC 3032 (Ch)
2008 Oct 28–
31;
Nov 3– 7;
Dec 9
Nov 3– 7;
Dec 9
Arnold J
Trade mark— Validity— “Bad faith”— Groups of hotels and restaurants with same substantive name— Claim for infringement of Community trade mark— Counterclaim that Community trade mark invalid— Whether trade mark application made in “bad faith”—
Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94, art 51(1)(b)