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Published on: 05 March 2026

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Trade marks

Pear Pressure—joint tortfeasorship for company secretaries clarified (Wang Zeng v Bing Bing)

This dispute involved rival greengrocers and two unusual pear varieties protected as registered trade marks, ‘Mountain Pear’ and ‘Yu Lu Fragrant Pear’.

In Wang Zeng International Ltd v Bing Bing Foods Ltd [2026] EWHC 360 (IPEC), the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court ruled for the proprietor, Wang Zeng International Ltd (WZI), against Bing Bing Foods Ltd and its sole director, Mr Bingtao Wang, who accepted using identical signs for identical goods without permission.

The defendants contended the signs were merely descriptive names of pear cultivars and should be ruled invalid. The court rejected their broad, yet thinly supported, invalidity counterclaims under sections 3(1)(b), (c) and (d), 46(1)(c) and 3(6) of the Trade Marks Act 1994, concluding the registrations were valid...

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