Trade Marks - NXP BV v ID Management Systems
Royal Courts of Justice Author David Castor Reproduced pursuant to CCO 1.0 Source Wikipedia Royal Courts of Justice Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Mr Recorder Campbell QC) NXP BV v ID Management Systems [2019] EWHC 1902 (IPEC) (31 July 2019) This was an action for trade mark infringement. The claimant was the registered proprietor of several EU trade mark registrations of the word MIFARE for goods in class 9 either simpliciter as in EU10920007 or in combination with a device as in WE1191506 . The claimant complained that the defendant company had infringed those trade marks by selling counterfeit smart cards on two occasions. This action started in the small claims track of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. The claimant had limited its claim to £10,000 and did not allege that the defendant had infringed its trade marks on any other occasion. Nevertheless, on reviewing the papers the district...