Author: Joshi IP

Michael Jordan V Qiaodan Sports

Supreme People’s Court China – 09 April 2020   Michael Jordan’s history with Qiaodan Sports isn’t a pleasant one, with more than 80 lawsuits and counter lawsuits over the last eight years. This is no surprise to those who are familiar with Qiaodan Sports (Chinese rough transliteration of Jordan), who are known to register variations […]

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HEKS’NKAAS v. Dip & Smeer’m

Witch’s Cheese B.V. v Kuhlmann Netherlands Case No: C/05/364119/Kg SAT 19-528 – 12 March 2020   Heksenkaas BV worked with Kühlmann to develop an important ingredient for the original HEKS’NKAAS cheese dip.  After this collaboration ended, Kühlmann developed a similar cheese dip, with similar packaging called Dip & Smeer’m.  Both products have a cardboard strip […]

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BMW v. DMW

BMW AG v Om Balajee Automobile (India pvt. Ltd High Court of Delhi Case No: CS (COMM) 292/0217 – 23 March 2020 Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile company, and is known for manufacturing and selling cars and motorcycles under the brand name BMW.  BMW has been selling automobiles in the Indian market […]

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“Brand it like Beckham” – Image Rights and Personal branding

Protecting your ‘brand’   Branded merchandising and celebrity endorsement is big business today. It is believed that almost two-thirds of total marketing spend of UK companies is on sport related marketing. Sports clubs and the individual players particularly have increasingly become aware of the commercial value of their images and are selling clothing, computer games, […]

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