Tesco Wins Appeal In Trademark Fight With Lidl In UK Court
Date
11/5/2022 2:06:11 AM
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Britain's biggest retailer Tesco can argue at trial that
discount supermarket Lidl applied for trademarks for a yellow
circle against a blue background in“bad faith” after a London
court on Wednesday allowed its appeal, reports citing .
Tesco filed a counterclaim against Lidl in 2021, in response to
its German-owned rival's lawsuit which said Tesco was trying“to
ride on [its] coat-tails” by using a logo of a yellow circle on a
blue background to promote its“Clubcard Prices” discount
scheme.
Tesco – the grocery market leader in Britain with a 27% share
against Lidl's 7%, according to industry data – argued Lidl
registered a trademark of its logo without its name as a“legal
weapon” to support the trademark over its more widely used
logo.
A lower court dismissed Tesco's case on bad faith in June, but
the Court of Appeal in London ruled on Wednesday that the argument
should be part of a trial of Lidl's initial lawsuit and Tesco's
counterclaim, which is due to be heard at the High Court early next
year.
A Tesco spokesperson said:“We are pleased with today's
decision. We continue to deny and strongly defend this claim and
remain very confident of our position for trial next year.”
A Lidl spokesperson said:“This appeal is only a small
procedural aspect of the case and we remain confident in the
outcome of the trial in 2023.”
The case is Lidl Great Britain Limited and another v Tesco
Stores Limited and another, CA-2022-001407.
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