Man’s trade mark breach defence is only ‘ráiméis’

A businessman caught with 16,000 UGG-style boots and over 200 loose UGG labels denied breaching the Trademarks Act and said: “I thought about it definitely but I did not do it.”

However, Judge James O’Connor rejected the claim by Michael Fennell, 60, of Laburnum Grove, Onslow Gardens in Cork as “ráiméis, balderdash and Cloud-cuckoo-land stuff.”

Fennell was yesterday fined €500 at Cork District Court for the offence of having the UGG tags with a view to breaching the Trade Marks Act.