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Applicable legal principles: Marks-similarity assessment – 2

(iv) When speaking of the assessment of a mark as a whole, the visual, aural or conceptual similarity of the marks in qu...
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Applicable legal principles: Marks-similarity assessment – 1

(i) The three aspects of similarity (i.e. visual, aural and conceptual similarities) are meant to guide the court’s inqu...
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All in all, the marks are dissimilar to a significant degree – 2

No matter how one slices and dices it, the “V” in the Application Mark is a significant differentiating factor. The ambi...
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All in all, the marks are dissimilar to a significant degree – 1

Case law recognises two approaches to the aural similarity assessment. The first is to consider the dominant and distinc...
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Damage in the form of blurring as well as potential diverted sales

After all, the perspective to be adopted is that of a notional customer with imperfect recollection. Through that lens, ...
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Names of famous fictional characters and stories

If the name in question is widely known, it is possible that it will only be viewed as the name of the character in the ...
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Louis Vuitton Counterfeit Case: Singapore Court Decision – 3

Even if the claimant's material was used in the Offending Goods, it still does not change the fact that the Offending Go...
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Louis Vuitton Counterfeit Case: Singapore Court Decision – 2

About a month later, the claimant instructed its representative to make a trap purchase of 12 of the Offending Goods. Th...
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Louis Vuitton Counterfeit Case: Singapore Court Decision – 1

This judgment deals with the assessment of damages for trade mark infringement where the defendant has used a counterfei...
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Similarity of marks

Monster Energy Company v Artisan Boulangerie Compagnie Pte Ltd SGIPOS 8The well-established criteria of visual, aural an...