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Colgate Palmolive Company Ltd v Sombe Supermarket Ltd (Civil Suit No. 689 of 2016) [2017] UGCommC 6 (10 February 2017)
The High Court found trademark infringement and passing off over toothbrushes sold as “Colage Double Action,” awarded damages, injunction, and destruction of goods.
Arcadian Tobacco Co. Ltd v John Sinclair Ltd (C.A. 5/1932.) [1933] EACJ 1 (1 January 1933)
The Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa allowed an appeal over registration of the “Tatler” trade mark, holding the Kenya market was the relevant test for deception.
In Re: of an Appliaction for Registration of a Trade Mark, No 24 of 1929 by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. of Ohio, U.S.A.; In Re: of the Registration of Trade Marks Ordinance Chapter 89 Revised Edition of he Laws of Kenya, Section 7, Subsection 5. (C.C. 184/1929 (Msa)) [1929] EACA 60 (1 January 1929)
The court held that limited but growing use of “Gum-Dipped” in Kenya could support distinctiveness for trade mark registration in a young colony.
