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15 June 2020TrademarksSimon Clark, Lucie Fortune and Elisa Lindemann

Dissecting SkyKick

In  Sky v SkyKick, the English High Court applied the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to find Sky's trademarks partially invalid in relation to certain goods and services as they had been applied for in bad faith. Nevertheless, the High Court held that parts of the trademarks remained valid and had been infringed by SkyKick.

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