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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> TY -BO (Trade Mark: Opposition) [2003] UKIntelP o11303 (3 April 2003) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2003/o11303.html Cite as: [2003] UKIntelP o11303 |
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Result
Costs awarded in respect of abandoned appeal.
Points Of Interest
Summary
At first instance (see BL O/315/02) the Registrar’s Hearing Officer had found for the opponents, under Section 5(2)(b). The applicant appealed but did not attend the hearing fixed by the Appointed Person and did not respond to the Treasury Solicitor’s letter. The Appointed Person issued a Default Notice and Directions and the appeal was deemed abandoned. The opponents requested costs in respect of the abandoned appeal. The itemised list included, inter alia, a sum relating to costs incurred because the Registry had not notified the opponents that an appeal had been filed. The Appointed Person ruled that these could not feature in a claim on the appellants. Neither did he feel that the appellants should be required to underwrite the opponents’ decision to incur costs more than 5 times larger than the sum awarded at first instance. He awarded a sum in accordance with the published scale.
