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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 background.
Tesco's Clubcard logo (left) and the Lidl logo. Credit: PA Lidl has won a High Court battle against Tesco over the rival supermarket's use of a yellow circle logo.
Supermarkets Tesco and Lidl have begun a court fight in London over the use of a yellow circle logo. German discount chain Lidl says a trademark, and copyright, has been infringed, while Tesco has ...
Lidl won its claims of trade mark and copyright infringement against Tesco over the yellow circle and blue square that make up its logo. ... based on the yellow circle on the blue background.
Lidl uses a yellow circle in its main logo while Tesco uses a yellow circle logo to promote a Clubcard scheme. This marked a rare victory for the discounter over its largest rival, and the court ...
The yellow circle set in the middle of a blue square was similar to Lidl’s logo, and Tesco has continued to to use the new logo instore and online for the last three years.
Tesco filed a counterclaim against Lidl in 2021, in response to Lidl’s initial lawsuit which said Tesco was trying ’to ride on (its) coat-tails’ by using a logo of a yellow circle on a blue ...
The legal opinion was that the addition of the yellow circle would give them a readily protectable mark they could secure." The logo first appeared on the comic and on the character in Batman #164 ...
Retailer Tesco has lost an appeal in the UK against a ruling that it infringed German discount supermarket Lidl's trademark over the use of a yellow circle on a square blue background.