{"id":110504,"date":"2025-10-31T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/110504\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:46:09","slug":"court-rejects-uber-group-bid-to-block-uber-and-one-nz-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/110504\/","title":{"rendered":"Court rejects Uber Group bid to block Uber and One NZ partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rideshare giant Uber Technologies has seen off a trademark challenge from older, much smaller namesake Uber Group. Photo \/ Getty Images\n<\/p>\n

A Northland telco has lost its initial court battle over the Uber trademark to the rideshare and delivery company with whom it shares the name.<\/p>\n

\n Whang\u0101rei broadband provider Uber Group had taken its tilt against Uber Technologies and telco One NZ, claiming a cross-promotional partnership between the two defendants amounted
\n to breach of a co-existence agreement made in 2014 and infringed its trademark in Northland\u2019s telecommunications services, built up over 20 years of trading.\n <\/p>\n

Justice Mathew Downs said that partnership was not offering telecommunications services, nor is Uber Technologies. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe representations do not, then, promote Uber Technologies as an entrant to the telecommunications market,\u201d Justice Downs said. <\/p>\n

\u201cMoreover, Uber Technologies has registered trade marks of its own it is entitled to use.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BusinessDesk 31 Oct, 2025 03:57 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95,5837,1040,1972,138,1656,1349,31143,209,79225,5836,13617,111,139,1067,69,5270,1523,4753,22049,79226,180,65984,61,57196,7489,79227,102],"class_list":["post-110504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-and","tag-battle","tag-bid","tag-block","tag-business","tag-company","tag-court","tag-delivery","tag-group","tag-initial","tag-lost","tag-name","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-over","tag-partnership","tag-rejects","tag-rideshare","tag-shares","tag-telco","tag-to","tag-trademark","tag-uber","tag-whom","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}