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Cussons (New Zealand) Pty Ltd v Unilever Plc and Unilever New Zealand Ltd - [1998] 1 NZLR 396
$30.00
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Privy Council Wellington
21 October; 20 November 1997
Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Steyn, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Cooke of Thorndon and Lord Hutton
21 October; 20 November 1997
Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Steyn, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Cooke of Thorndon and Lord Hutton
Copyright — Infringement — Infringing use of registered but unused mark.
Statutes — Interpretation — Whether statute permitted duplicate registration of identical mark — Trade Marks Act 1953, s 35.
Statutes — Interpretation — Whether trade mark owner can effectively avoid, through duplicate registration, the removal of a mark by reason of non-use — Trade Marks Act 1953, s 35(1).
Statutes — Interpretation — Whether duplicate registrations of identical marks are to be regarded as separate registrations.
Statutes — Interpretation — Whether removal for non-use of a trade mark covered all registrations of that mark — Whether removal was limited to only those registrations of the mark not used in the previous five years.