Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Brandsmiths acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 6 Mar 2024 |
[2024] UKSC 8 · Supreme Court
A foreign website uses a trade mark within the protected territory when its advertisements or offers are targeted there. Targeting is assessed objectively from…
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42 |
| 24 Jun 2025 |
[2025] UKSC 25 · Supreme Court
Realistic and representative post-sale circumstances may be considered when deciding whether a sign is similar to a registered trade mark and assessing the…
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23 |
| 27 May 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1194 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An introducer’s fee is payable only within the contractual scope agreed. An alleged extension of a tail period must be objectively established, and a variation…
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11 |
| 7 May 2021 |
[2021] EWCA Civ 675 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An accessory who must account for profits is liable only for profits which the accessory actually derived from the wrongful conduct, not profits made by the…
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8 |
| 26 Jan 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 29 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Likelihood of confusion under section 10(2) requires a global assessment from the perspective of the average consumer, with marks considered as wholes and…
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5 |
| 4 May 2022 |
[2022] EWCA Civ 552 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Use of a trade mark on a foreign website must be assessed objectively, act by act, from the perspective of the average consumer in the protected territory.…
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4 |
| 18 Apr 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 783 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A contractual provision is void for uncertainty only where the court cannot safely identify its meaning or give it sensible legal or practical content. The…
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4 |
| 22 Jul 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1934 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Joint authorship requires collaboration pursuant to a common design, together with authorial and non-distinct contributions. Mere editorial suggestions or…
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4 |
| 14 May 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 1207 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Copyright infringement may be established where substantial similarity and a sufficient possibility of access give rise to a strong prima facie inference of…
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3 |
| 20 Apr 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 962 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A final injunction is an equitable remedy and its terms depend on the circumstances. Once an injunction is justified in principle, intellectual property cases…
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3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 27 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1957 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where a copyright claim is pleaded by reference to a representative sample, the court may draw inferences about a wider corpus if the sample is genuinely…
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| 24 Jul 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2071 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
When an application has been compromised and only costs remain, the court should rarely investigate the underlying merits or predict the result. It may decline…
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| 25 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1546 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On summary judgment, a party has no real prospect of success where its case consists of unsupported assertions and the evidence establishes the relevant…
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| 19 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1476 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An application for security for costs should generally be made promptly once the facts justifying it are known. Where a corporate claimant is likely to be…
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| 8 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1085 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
In determining defamatory meaning, the court must identify the single natural and ordinary meaning conveyed to the hypothetical reasonable reader, reading the…
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| 8 May 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 532 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under section 12(3) of the Human Rights Act 1998, the ordinary threshold for an interim order restraining publication is that the applicant is more likely than…
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| 28 Nov 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 3141 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where an application is withdrawn after the applicant fails to obtain the relief sought, the applicant may properly be treated as the unsuccessful party for…
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| 4 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1705 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Indemnity costs require conduct or circumstances taking the case out of the norm. An unsuccessful appeal is not “hopeless” merely because it fails or is…
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| 1 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1629 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
On an appeal from a trade mark opposition decision, the appellate court should review rather than rehear the case. It should not interfere with a…
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| 24 Jun 2025 |
[2025] UKSC 25 · Supreme Court
Realistic and representative post-sale circumstances may be considered when deciding whether a sign is similar to a registered trade mark and assessing the…
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23 |
| 9 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1417 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Non-registration of a trade mark sub-licence does not prevent a proprietor from recovering, or the court from taking into account, loss suffered by the…
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| 21 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1239 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Applications for interim injunctions against allegedly unjustified trade mark threats may fall within the exceptional category recognised under [2005] 1 AC…
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