“…hat “the very life of a trade mark depends on the promptitude with which it is vindicated”. As Jacob LJ explained in Phones 4u Ltd v Phone4u.co.uk Internet Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 244, [2007] RPC 5 at [8], “[l]ike gardens trade mark cases always get worse with neglect – even if rights are not actually lost, delay is apt to turn what would be…”
“…es Ltd v Borden Inc [1990] 1 WLR 491, and as to other aspects of the law of passing off by reference to Phones4u Ltd & Anor v. Phone4u.co.uk Internet Ltd & Ors [2006] EWCA Civ 244. At paragraph 197 the judge says he was satisfied by reliance on British Telecommunications plc v One in a Million Ltd and Others [1999] 1 WLR 903 "that regist…”