Trade Marks and Passing Off - Planetart v Photobox
Senado Federal / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Daniel Alexander QC) Planetart LLC and another v Photobox Ltd and another [2020] EWHC 713 (Ch) (25 March 2020) This was an action for trade mark infringement. passing of f and invalidation of one of the defendant's trade marks. The claimants were the Delaware company, Planetart LLC , and its English subsidiary, Planetart Ltd . Those companies offer a photo printing service called FreePrints that is best explained in the How it Works video on the home page of their website. The defendants, Photobox Ltd. and Photobox Free Prints Ltd. offer a service that is similar to the claimants'. The first claimant has registered the following as a UK trade mark for a range of goods and services in classes 9, 16, 40 and 42 under trade mark number UK3393165 with effect from 17 April 2019: The defendants have used the fol...