Fashion designer Stella McCartney will launch her new perfume - STELLANUDE - this weekend after winning a court battle with Ali Hewson, wife of U2 frontman Bono.
Hewson owns a company called Nude Brands Limited (NBL), which has a European Community Trademark on 'NUDE' - in capital letters.
She had asked the High Court for an emergency injunction to stall the release of the perfume pending a full trial on trademark infringement..
Mr Justice Floyd, who presided over the proceedings, said an injunction blocking STELLANUDE's launch risked causing 'massive disruption' and would cost millions of pounds to the business of McCartney and her licensee YSL Beaute Limited, part of the L'Oreal cosmetics group.
'I have come to the conclusion that the balance of injustice in this case requires me to refuse the injunction,' the judge said.
'It seems to me that, in this particular case, the likely damage to SML and L'Oreal if an injunction is wrongly granted outweighs the damage to NBL if it is refused.'
'The effect of an injunction wrongly granted against SML would be to cause a massive disruption to their business, and probably cause them to abandon use of the brand altogether
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