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23rd Aug 2007
Defending Intellectual Property
Design Go v Home and Leisure Holdings Limited
Every year Design Go releases up to 20 new products and are widely regarded as the leading innovators within the travel accessory market. They take the protection of their unique designs very seriously and have had success in protecting their Intellectual Property rights around the world. To date, settlements have been reached as far a field as China, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
Only last week in the UK, they were successful in preventing the sale of an inflatable pillow that was considered an infringement on a registered design by Home and Leisure Holdings Limited. Working with Marks & Clerk, (UK's leading firm of patent and trade mark attorneys), they secured undertakings from Home and Leisure Holdings Limited and a financial settlement which brought the matter to conclusion.
In the course of the dispute, not only did Home and Leisure Holdings Limited undertake not to import any further pillows made to Design Go's registered design into the UK, but all stocks were removed from circulation.
The Product recall forced their principal customer Asda, (the well known UK supermarket owned by US retailing giant Walmart), to remove the item from their entire distribution supply chain.
Glenn Rogers MD described the outcome as "very satisfactory, indeed".
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