MISTER CHEF v. MASTERCHEF: conceptual dissonance? On 15 December, Mrs Justice Joanna Smith DBE handed down a short decision in an appeal from the Trade Marks Registry in Shine TV Ltd v. Ska Trading Ltd [2022] EWHC 3156 (Ch). Ska sought to register the mark ‘MISTER CHEF’ for various cooking utensils. Shine owned earlier rights in the form of […]
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Summary The High Court found that a novel partly based on the real-life love affair of Boris Pasternak, author of the world-famous Doctor Zhivago, did not infringe the copyright in the selection, structure and arrangement of facts and incidents contained in a non-fictional account of Pasternak’s affair written by his great-niece. It did, however, infringe […]
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