Trade Marks and Passing off - Coreix Ltd v Coretx Holdings Plc and Others
Author BigRiz Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3,0 Unported Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court Coreix Ltd v Coretx Holdings Plc and others [ 2017] EWHC 1695 (IPEC) Mr Recorder Campbell QC This was a claim for trade mark infringement and passing off and an application for the cancellation of CORETX as a UK trade mark. The action was brought by Coreix Ltd . ( "Coreix" ) which was the registered proprietor of the word mark COREIX . The defendants are members of a group of companies that include the word CORETX in their corporate names, have registered CORETX sign as a word mark and supply ICT services under that mark as well as a device mark that includes the word CORETX The Facts The third defendant was incorporated in 2004 under the name CONNEXIONS4LONDON LTD. It traded under the mark C4L in relation to telecommunication and computer services. From Nov 2013, it st...