In a highly anticipated judgment, the Supreme Court
("SC") has issued its decision to SkyKick's appeal
against the Court of Appeal ("CoA"), finding that the CoA
was wrong to overturn the High Court's ("HC")
decision that Sky's trade marks were registered in bad
faith.
SkyKick UK Ltd and another
(Appellants) v Sky Ltd and others (Respondents)
Supreme Court Judgment given on 13
November 2024
[2024] UKSC 36 On appeal from:
[2021] EWCA Civ 1121
Firstly, it should be noted that following settlement between
the parties, SkyKick applied to withdraw its Appeal and this was
supported by Sky. However, the Comptroller-General as intervener
for the Appeal considered the importance and public policy interest
in the legal matters at hand and invited the SC to give judgment in
the usual way. As a judgment has been made, the SC has invited the
parties to file submissions on the appropriate form of final order
given that the parties have settled.
