Apr 19, 2023 · Discounter Lidl has won a trademark battle against the UK's biggest supermarket chain Tesco. The High Court ruled that Tesco's Clubcard logo copied Lidl's logo, which both use a yellow circle...

Mar 19, 2024 · Customers can expect to see a change to its Clubcard Prices logo in the coming weeks. The legal saga between the two supermarkets began in 2020 when Lidl launched the lawsuit against Tesco after...

Mar 27, 2024 · Lidl, a discount supermarket with a presence in the UK since 1994, has been successful in an infringement and passing off claim against Tesco, the largest supermarket chain in the UK. The dispute came before the High Court in 2023 and Lidl was overall successful.

Mar 22, 2024 · In the complex realm of intellectual property rights, a recent ruling by the Court of Appeal has caused shockwaves through the retail sector. The case, which pitted supermarket giants, Lidl and Tesco against each other, demonstrates the difficulties of trademark infringement, passing off, and copyright issues.

May 31, 2023 · Lidl sued Tesco for trade mark infringement relying on a reputation-based claim under section 10(3) of the Trade Marks Act 1994. Lidl was able to provide substantial evidence that its marks had a significant reputation for supermarket services in the UK.

Jan 29, 2025 · In March 2024, the Court of Appeal found that Tesco gained unfair advantage by associating themselves with Lidl by designing a Clubcard logo similar to Lidl’s logo. It was found that...

Mar 19, 2024 · Last year, the High Court decided that Tesco's use of its Clubcard Prices logo constituted trade mark infringement, passing off and copyright infringement of Lidl's logo and that certain of Lidl's trade marks for its exact same logo without the word Lidl had been filed by Lidl in …

Mar 19, 2024 · Britain's biggest retailer Tesco on Tuesday lost an appeal against a ruling that it infringed German discount supermarket Lidl's trademark over the use of a yellow circle on a square blue...

Feb 6, 2023 · In the latest instalment of trade mark litigation between UK supermarket competitors Lidl and Tesco, the Court of Appeal has reversed a High Court decision that had struck out Tesco's counterclaim on bad faith grounds.

Tesco counterclaimed that Lidl’s Wordless Mark should be invalidated, claiming that Lidl had no genuine intention to use the Wordless Mark and that it was filed as a ‘legal weapon’. Lidl had filed applications for the Wordless Mark on numerous occasions (in 1995, 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2021) which Tesco relied on as evidence of ...