Latham IP Lawyers save the day
Bringing together one million sweaty competitors and 25 cities around the globe, last weekend saw the first-ever global 10k run. The event sparked a sense of healthy goodwill around the world, bringing the human race together as one for an event cleverly entitled, erm, the Human Race. However, the name of the event was almost its undoing. The UK leg of the race was only saved at the 11th hour after very nearly falling foul of intellectual property law.
September 03, 2008 at 08:05 PM
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Bringing together one million sweaty competitors and 25 cities around the globe, last weekend saw the first-ever global 10k run. The event sparked a sense of healthy goodwill around the world, bringing the human race together as one for an event cleverly entitled, erm, the Human Race.
However, the name of the event was almost its undoing. The UK leg of the race was only saved at the 11th hour after very nearly falling foul of intellectual property law.
Spoilsports at events company Human Race Ltd had launched proceedings in the High Court, attempting to restrain the use of the term Human Race, which it said infringed a logo registered trademark.
Thankfully, our esteemed friends at Latham & Watkins' UK arm stepped in to save the day, with a team of IP crusaders uniting to successfully represent race organisers Nike UK and ensure the Blighty-based leg of the race could go ahead.
The firm was so overjoyed by the satisfactory outcome that it fielded nearly 50 runners in nine cities for the event including some who joined the 30,000 pavement-pummellers in London (pictured above).
If The Diary was wont to throw around gratuitous puns, you could say that IP litigation superhero Larry Cohen, who joined Latham last year, has got off to a running start at the firm. Taxi!
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