Energy Beverages LLC v Frucor Suntory New Zealand Ltd - [2023] 2 NZLR 329

Trade marks — Removal of trade mark from register — Non-use — Declaration of invalidity — Colour represented on registered trade mark — Whether non-use of colour — Whether registration invalid on grounds sign not qualifying as trade mark — Presumption of validity after seven years — Time-bar — Wording of description with registration — “Predominant colour” — Whether description ambiguous and covering multiple signs — Invalidity application brought nearly nine years after registration — Whether time bar applying to invalidity application — Error by Intellectual Property Office when registering colour electronically — Colour swatch provided with paper application — Error when colour digitised by Office — Trade Marks Regulations 2003 regs 42(1)(b), 44(g) and 129.