Yell owns a UK registered trade mark for “Yellow Pages” and a walking fingers logo. Through two transport business directory websites that Giboin and his companies operated from another country, they either had “Yellow Pages” in the domain name or the logo on the site.
Yell successfully sued for registered trade mark infringement and passing off in the England and Wales Patents County Court, despite the websites being operated from abroad. The judge said that there was no law that a company situated abroad but using a website to commit acts in this jurisdiction escaped liability for those acts.
