Dispute

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has rejected Entain’s bid to block a trademark application by Italian operator Sportbet. Entain, which owns the Sportingbet brand, argued that Sportbet S.R.L.’s logo for gambling and entertainment services was too similar and could mislead consumers. EUIPO disagreed, stating that the terms “sport” and “bet” are commonly used

A 28-year-old Italian man was held captive and tortured for weeks in a Manhattan luxury apartment before escaping Friday morning and finding a traffic enforcement officer for help. Police say the man was a former business partner of several crypto entrepreneurs who lived in the opulent SoHo brownstone but had a falling out with them

Bill Barton is director of law firm Barton Legal Disputes continue to occur with troubling frequency across the construction industry – and remain extremely expensive. Unsurprisingly, the sector is searching for ways to limit their frequency and cost. “In the lifecycle of a construction project,… The post Dispute boards: the secret to cheaper construction conflict

Southend United McLaren Construction has won a case over a £7.9m debt owed to it by a former chairman of Southend United Football Club and his development company. The contractor served statutory demands on Ron Martin and his company Martin Dawn plc to pay the money, which related to a loan agreement made in October

A £15m legal claim over flammable cladding on a high-rise site in London has been paused pending a mediation procedure. Social housing provider London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q) brought the claim for damages against Bouygues UK. L&Q claims it remediated two 10-storey buildings with flammable cladding and “poorly fitted” insulation, in the wake of

View of Sisk working around West Ham station Berkeley Homes and John Sisk and Son are embroiled in a legal battle over who is responsible for design flaws that could cost more than £4m. The dispute concerns a contract signed in December 2020 for Sisk to build three bridges and a new train station entrance