thecabbie28 wrote:
Good Evening to a wonderful place
Can you have 2 taxis companies operating under the same name in the same licencing District.
Nothing to do with the council and not necessarily related to registering a company name, even assuming your business was set up as a limited company.
It's more of a trademark dispute, but if you haven't actually registered a trademark then you have to rely on the law relating to 'passing off', which basically means unfairly exploiting another business's goodwill and reputation.
It all depends on the circumstances, but if you have been trading for some time as Joe's Taxis and someone sets up nearby with the same name then that could be seen as passing off. Or even if the new business used something like Joe's Cabs, which is clearly different, but could be viewed as exploiting the longer established name.
In view of the title of the thread then I suspect you've already done a bit of research on this, so perhaps you've already tried to point out the error of your competitor's ways?
Of course, if they've just ignored you then you might want to seek legal advice. Obviously this would cost you, but it's likely that a solicitor's letter would resolve the situation.
Have a look at this:
http://www.contactlaw.co.uk/passing-off.html
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