Trade mark

The claimant American university opposed the defendant English university’s change of name to “Regent’s University London”. The defendant applied for revocation of the claimant’s Community trade mark. Fourteen days later, the claimant commenced the instant proceedings in the English High Court for infringement of its mark. The Patents County Court allowed the defendant’s application for a stay of the instant proceedings as the claimant had been unable to show special grounds for not granting a stay.