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The University, of Law MEMORANDUM To: Trainee From: Partner Client: ALDO Subject: Passing Off Date [Today's date] I have been contacted by Leah Williams. She and Noah Taylor are directors of ALDO for whom we act. As you may be aware, ALDO is a large food retailer which sources drink and foodstuffs from suppliers around the world and sells them via its discount food outlets across the UK. ALDO tries to offer value for money for its products where possible and takes great care to offer customers quality products. As a result their brand has recently become very popular with budget minded consumers. One line of products, a range of confectionary themed around animals and insects, has been particularly successful and has become a real income earner for ALDO. The leading product in this range is branded 'Bella the Butterfly' which has proven very popular for children's birthday parties. You may have seen these in ALDO shop as the cakes have a distinctive butterfly shape. The butterfly shape for the cake means that the packaging is also butterfly shaped with a transparent plastic seal so that you can see the butterfly shaped cake within. Leah phoned me yesterday to say that she is very concerned about a phone call she has just had with Seema Kumar ("Seema"). Seema is the managing director of Seema & Madhav Limited ("S & M Ltd") which markets a number of food and drink products in novelty packaging which are sold all over the UK in supermarkets and convenience stores. One of its top sellers is 'Beau the Butterfly' which is a butterfly shaped cake. There are no trade marks