On 23 July 2018 the Court of Appeal handed down its decision on the appeal of Hislop v Perde [2018] EWCA Civ 1726. It held that in cases where a Claimant’s part 36 offer is accepted out of time and where the claim is subject to the fixed costs regime of CPR 45, the fixed costs regime co...
On Wednesday 25 July 2018 the European Court of Appeal ruled that Nestlé’s Kit Kat’s shape was not sufficiently distinctive in all European countries to successfully acquire trademark protection across the EU.
It was held that it is not enough to prove that the "four trapezoidal bars ali...
