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What’s in a name? A lot, says Ku De Ta
A trademark dispute between the Marina Bay Sands nightclub and the founding partners of Ku De Ta in Bali appears destined for settlement by the courts.
The Singapore High Court last week dismissed an application by owners of the MBS rooftop nightclub to strike out a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by the Ku De Ta Bali partnership.
The partnership – comprising Australians Guy Neale, Aki Kotzamichalis and Arthur Chondros; Indonesian Made Wiranatha and the White Horse Trading Co – is seeking a court order to stop the Singapore club from using the Ku De Ta name at its Sky Park venue at MBS, and in its corporate materials and website, www.kudeta.com.sg.
The partnership, which ran the Bali club since 2000 under the Ku De Ta trademark registered in Indonesia, said the alleged infringement was discovered after the partners did a search of the trade name in the Singapore Registry of Trademarks in December 2009.
According to the suit, Nine Squares, an Australian firm founded by Chondros, had, “without the consent or authorisation” of the partnership, registered two trademarks in Singapore in 2004 and 2009 incorporating the name Ku De Ta, and then licensed the marks to a Hong Kong businessman Chris Au, who assigned the marks for use at MBS.
Source: Business Times
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