Style is everything, but style names aren’t “trade marks”
Pinnacle Runway Pty Ltd v Triangl Limited [2019] FCA 1662
In a recent decision commenced by Pinnacle Runway against well-known swimwear brand Triangl, the Federal Court has chastised the parties involved for partaking in so called “ill-advised proceedings”. The Court also confirmed that use of a word as a style name to differentiate between product lines will not amount to use as a trade mark so as to constitute trade mark infringement.
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