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The infringement of Competition Law can result in the imposition of fines of up to 10% of worldwide turnover as well as the risk of multi million pound civil claims by third parties seeking damages for loss suffered as a result of the infringing activities. In addition, involvement in a CMA Investigation will result in an alleged infringer incurring substantial legal fees, the loss of significant management time and the risk of damaging publicity.
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you. Contact Julian Maitland-Walker
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Julian is a corporate and commercial lawyer and has a national and international reputation in the field of European and UK competition law, procurement and state aid/subsidy law, in addition to judicial review and planning.
Julian has acted in many leading cases before the EC and UK regulatory authorities as well as the English Courts, the European Court of First Instance and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
He has been the editor of the leading professional journal, “the European Competition Law Review” published by Sweet & Maxwell since it was established in 1980. He was also appointed a Special Advisor on competition law to the House of Commons Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) Select Committee in 2009.
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He has been the editor of the leading professional journal, “the European Competition Law Review” published by Sweet & Maxwell since it was established in 1980. He was also appointed a Special Advisor on competition law to the House of Commons Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) Select Committee in 2009.
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Maitland Walker successful in defending Trademark Infringement claim brought by the Beverly Hills Polo…
LIFESTYLE EQUITIES CV v ROYAL COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE POLO CLUB CASE NO. IL-2018-000115, [2023] EWHC 1839 (Ch)
BACKGROUND
The Claimants, Lifestyle Equities CV and an associated company, owners of the Beverly Hills Polo Club (BHPC) brand brought an action against the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club (RCBPC), its directors, its former licensing agent, the director of that former licensing agent and six overseas companies (some of which were current or former licensees of RCBPC) operating in Chile, Panama, Peru, Mexico and the UAE (together “the Overseas Territories”) for infringement of the BHPC registered trade mark in the UK, EU and the Overseas Territories.
BHPC’s principle claim was that the RCBPC marks, both depicting a polo rider on a horse (including that at fig. 1 below), were confusingly similar to the BHPC mark (fig. 2 below) which also depicting a polo rider on a horse. BHPC sought an injunction and damages in respect of RCBPC’s use of its marks which it said constituted trade mark infringement under section 10(2) and 10(3) of the Trade Marks Act 1994 (“TMA”).
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