New Zealand: Knauf-Fletcher Batt-le resumes in New Zealand

摘要

Germany's Knauf and New Zealand's Fletcher Building have returned to court for a cross appeal, the latest instalment of their long-running dispute over the use of the word 'batts'to describe insulation. Appearing in the Court of Appeal before Justices Tony Randerson, Christine French and Mark Cooper, the legal counsel for Fletcher's Tasman Insulation subsidiary, Julian Miles QC, returned to the argument that Knauf's use of 'batt' or 'batts' on the packaging of insulation infringed the 'Batts' trademark it has held since 1973.