Budéjovický Budvar, národní podnik v Anheuser-Busch Inc [2012] EWCA Civ 880; [2012] WLR (D) 190
“Where a longstanding situation of honest concurrent user of the same mark for goods had come about, each user could register its mark, and each could stop third parties from using it, but neither could stop the other.”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Britain is being taken to court by the European Commission in a battle over a £15m unpaid tax bill on imports of Chinese garlic.”
BBC News, 21st June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Mr Justice Jackson has ruled that it would be lawful and in the best interests of a 32 year old woman (referred to in the judgment as ‘E’) for her to be fed, using physical force or chemical sedation as necessary, for a period of ‘not less than a year’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th June 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A High Court judge has ruled that it is in the best interests of a woman who suffers from anorexia to be fed against her wishes.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th June 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former potato firm director has been told he faces a significant jail term for his role in a bribery scam with a buyer at Sainsbury’s.”
The Guardian, 15th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The village of Stilton is kicking up a stink for the right to use its own name for the cheese it produces.”
DailyTelegraph, 18th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Sainsbury’s £10m ‘feed your family for £50’ advertising campaign has been banned because its meal plans failed to provide enough calories and cost more than advertised.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Frisdranken Industrie Winters BV v Red Bull GmbH (Case C-119/10); [2012] WLR (D) 20
“A service provider who, under an order from and on the instructions of another person, filled packaging which was supplied to it by the other person who, in advance, affixed to it a sign which was identical with, or similar to, a sign protected as a trade mark did not itself make use of the sign that was liable to be prohibited under that provision.”
WLR Daily, 15th December 2012
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“A cafe owner who claimed that he created the recipe for a sauce popularised by a reggae singer who appeared on the BBC television show Dragons’ Den has lost a high court battle.”
The Guardian, 25th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The energy drink Lucozade has lost a bizarre legal attempt to prove it is a ‘functional food’ rather than a ‘beverage’, in a ruling which means it will still be eligible for VAT.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Dragon’s Den entrepreneur Levi Roots is being sued for more than £300,000 by a pal who claims he is the real inventor of the Reggae Reggae sauce, a court heard today.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A nurse who killed her baby daughter by force-feeding her using a method she claimed was common in her native Ghana is facing jail following a three-week trial.”
The Guardian, 12th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Historic spirit recognised by European commission after four-year battle and opposition from Spanish brandy makers.”
The Guardian, 15th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned Tesco from re-broadcasting a television advert that appeared to show pigs roaming freely in a field following complaints by viewers.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A pub has stopped selling wild bird on its menu – in the form of rook salad – on police advice. So what is the legality of such dishes?”
BBC News, 23rd August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Cadbury’s advertising campaign which compared Naomi Campbell to a bar of chocolate was not racist, the industry’s watchdog has ruled.”
The Independent, 21st June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Breeders of Gloucestershire Old Spots pigs have won a trademark battle against a meat marketing company over the name of one of its products.”
BBC News, 9th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A kitchen porter at a public school in Buckinghamshire has been cleared of pouring drain cleaner into pupils’ soup.”
BBC News, 6th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The supply of food or meals freshly prepared for immediate consumption from snack stalls or mobile snack bars or in cinema foyers was a supply of goods within the meaning of article 5 of Council Directive 77/388/EEC, as amended by Council Directive 92/111/EEC, if a qualitative examination of the entire transaction showed that the elements of supply of services preceding and accompanying the supply of the food were not predominant.”
WLR Daily, 10th March 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The future of those traditional staples of British cuisine, Indian and Chinese takeaways, have been thrown into doubt by new Home Office restrictions on the overseas recruitment of skilled migrants. The immigration minister, Damian Green, has decided to halt the recruitment from overseas of migrant chefs from outside Europe to work in any establishment that provides a takeaway service.”
The Guardian, 13th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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