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DARIGARD (Trade Mark: Invalidity) [2002] UKIntelP o04702 (1 February 2002)

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Trade mark decision

BL Number
O/047/02
Decision date
1 February 2002
Hearing officer
Mr M Foley
Mark
DARIGARD
Classes
31
Registered Proprietor
Tangerine Holdings Ltd
Applicants for Declaration of Invalidity
Smarte Immunosystems Ltd
Application for Invalidation
Section 47 & Section 3(6)

Result

Section 47 - Application for invalidation (Section 3(6)) failed.

Points Of Interest

Summary

The applicants contended that the predecessor of Tangerine Holdings Ltd had been their agent in the UK for various products, including one sold elsewhere under the mark DAIRY GUARD, and his application to register a similar mark had been made in bad faith. The Hearing officer, however, found that the marks were not similar, and consequently he could not see how there could be a finding of bad faith.

In case he should be found wrong in this, however, he went on to consider the matter of proprietorship. In this he could not find from the evidence that the applicants had established proprietorship of the mark DAIRY GUARD in the UK.



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