Future Enterprises Pte Ltd v McDonald's Corporation

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date29 September 2006
Date29 September 2006
Docket NumberOriginating Motion No 49 of 2005
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)

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17 cases
  • Festina Lotus SA v Romanson Company Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 16 Julio 2010
    ... ... [2003] EWHC 2756 (Ch) which was endorsed in Future ... Enterprises Pte Ltd McDonald’s Corp [2007] ... Itochu Corporation v ... Worldwide Brands, Inc [2007] SGIPOS 9 ... ...
  • Kickapoo (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd v The Monarch Beverage Company (Europe) Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 11 Diciembre 2009
    ... ... in Singapore, and HSC was later taken over by Heng Sheng Corporation Pte Ltd (“HSCPL”). The sale of Kickapoo beverages is extremely ... Indeed, in Future Enterprises Pte Ltd v McDonald’s Corp [2007] 2 SLR 845 (“ Future ... ...
  • Ozone Community Corporation v Advance Magazine Publishers Inc.
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 15 Enero 2010
    ... ... an appellate tribunal hearing an appeal from a decision of the PAR, the Court of Appeal in Future Enterprises Pte Ltd v McDonald's Corp [2007] 2 SLR (R) 245 ( Future Enterprises ) had been of ... ...
  • Doctor's Associates Inc. v Lim Eng Wah
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 18 Abril 2012
    ...pronunciation and speech” on the part of consumers should similarly be considered (Future Enterprises Pte Ltd v McDonald’s Corp [2006] 4 SLR(R) 629 at [12]); one cannot expect the marks to be pronounced carefully by someone such as a “teacher of elocution” (ibid). With regard to conceptual ......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Intellectual Property Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 Diciembre 2006
    ...17.2 The ‘Mac/Mc’ saga discussed in the 2004 SAL Annual Review raged on in 2006. In Future Enterprises Pte Ltd v McDonald”s Corp[2006] 4 SLR 629, McDonald”s Corporation (‘McDonald”s’) tried to stop a local company (‘Future’) from registering the mark ‘MacCoffee’ in respect of ‘instant coffe......