Podcasts

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis of HGF discuss the recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Faure Le Page case which concerned the use of a year in a trade mark, 1717, and whether that wrongly imparted heritage and prestige on the trade mark which could be viewed as deceptive and a basis for invalidity for a series of French trade mark registrations.   [video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://www.hgf.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/EP48-Social-Teaser.mp4"][/vi...

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis of HGF interview Professor Alexandra Roberts of Northeastern University in Boston on US trade dress law. What is trade dress? How can it be infringed? How does trade dress apply to the world of fashion? [video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://www.hgf.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/EP47-Teaser.mp4"][/video] [hgf-button url="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6VyXKnlhAUknGMFqJpprlJ?si=259e4243fef34c3e" button_text="SPOTIFY" button_type="outlined" new_tab="tr...

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the importance of personal names in the world of fashion and a recent decision of the CJEU concerning the registration of a trade mark relating to French fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. Did the use of the name JC de CASTELBAJAC post registration, after the sale of the underlying business, lead to a trade mark registration for the name to be invalidated on the basis of deceptiveness?  Is this decision contrary to the well-known decision relating ...

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis discuss the concept of ‘overall impression’ in registered design law in the United Kingdom and European Union. Rebecca and Lee also discuss where a claimant was successful in an action for registered design infringement in a fashion case and how overall impression came into play. [video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://www.hgf.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/EP45-–-Trailer-3.mp4"][/video]

Rebecca Field and Lee Curtis interview Theo Barclay of 4 New Square, who was the successful lead counsel for Dryrobe Limited, in the recent decision of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) concerning trade mark infringement and passing off claims by Dryrobe Limited against Caesr Group Limited (trading as D-Robe Outdoors) and counterclaims by Caeser Group based on descriptiveness, genericism and non-use. The case is particularly interesting as it is one of the few UK trade mark cases...