Bad faith, Case law, Color, Non Use, Similarity of marks, Trademark, United Kingdom, Use requirement
UK: A Lidl Use Goes a Long Way
Intellectual property law is designed to confer exclusive protections to intangible assets, to be used in compliance with honest commercial practices. In the absence of a statutory definition of what constitutes bad faith, a body of case law has been necessary to illuminate the threshold of behavioural demerit sufficient to disqualify owners from the benefits…