Amidst a blaze of publicity usually reserved for the most scandalous libel cases rather than painstaking literary copyright claims concerning esoteric historical theories, the High Court on Friday dismissed claims by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, two of the authors of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail (HBHG), that the author Dan Brown infringed … Read more
The High Court has today handed down judgment rejecting a passing off claim against Channel 4 by US programme producer A&E Television Networks. The claim related to a TV programme Channel 4 plans to broadcast with a name similar to a series entitled Intervention broadcast by A&E in the USA. Channel 4 can lawfully broadcast … Read more
O2 has lost its trade mark claim against Hutchison 3G concerning the use of bubble imagery in comparative advertising. After the use of competitors’ trade marks in comparative advertising was liberalised across Europe in 1994 there were a series of claims in which the limits of the new regime were tested by trade mark owners. … Read more
