Hai Tong Co (Pte) Ltd v Ventree Singapore Pte Ltd

In a trade mark infringement and passing off dispute over similar cosmetics marks ('Lady Rose' vs 'Rose Lady'), the Court of Appeal restated that infringement under s 27(2)(b) turns on the step-by-step marks/goods-similarity and likelihood-of-confusion analysis, while the tort of passing off requires the classic trinity of goodwill, misrepresentation operative on a substantial part of the relevant public, and damage.