Summary judgment ordered in JUUL trade mark infringement case (Juul Labs, Inc. v Quick Xuul Ltd)

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• What are the practical implications of this case?
• What was the background?
• What did the court decide?
• Case details

Article summary

IP analysis: The High Court has granted the claimants’ application for summary judgment in a trade mark infringement and passing off case relating to the sale and supply of counterfeit electronic nicotine delivery systems equipment and products (otherwise known as ‘vaping’ products). The claimants are companies in the Juul Group which own EUTM registrations for the word JUUL in plain and stylised forms, and for representations of their pod and vaporiser designs. The defendants were held to have infringed all of the trade mark registrations and to have committed acts of passing off by their acts of advertising and selling counterfeit products via websites and social media accounts in the UK under the names JUUL, XUUL and QUICK XUUL. The court granted a number of remedies including declarations of infringement and injunctions to restrain the defendants from their infringing activities.