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Following on from the recent decision on Cadbury’s trade marking of the colour purple, the US fashion industry has also recently considered colours as trade marks. The American retailer Tiffany’s, (who already hold a number of trade marks for a blue colour) is supporting Christian Louboutin’s appeal against a court decision which stated that a single colour for fashion items is never subject to protection.
Many companies will be closely following the development of colours as trade marks; the often strong association of a colour with a brand or type of product by consumers is something many will want to closely protect, whilst others will be concerned about being increasingly restricted in their use of colours on packaging.
Judgement has been handed down for the seminal case of Cardtronics UK Ltd and others (Respondents) v Sykes and others (Valuation Officers) (Appellants) [2020] UKSC 21.
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Following an MP debate on 5 November 2019, the government is due to release long-awaited guidance as to how it intends to protect workers in the retail industry against violence, harassment and abuse.
Some commentators had anticipated that persisting retail sector challenges might disrupt more than the make-up of the high street or commercial property negotiations between landlords and tenants.
Mandatory registration under the Drone Safe Drone and Model Aircraft Registration and Education Service starts at 00.00 on 30 November 2019.
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