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10 ROYAL BERKSHIRE POLO CLUB (Trade Mark: Opposition) [2000] UKIntelP o33500 (7 September 2000)
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Trade mark decision
- BL Number
- O/335/00
- Decision date
- 7 September 2000
- Hearing officer
- Mr Geoffrey Hobbs QC
- Mark
- 10 ROYAL BERKSHIRE POLO CLUB
- Classes
- 03
- Appellants (Applicants for Registration)
- The Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club Ltd
- Respondents (Opponents)
- Polo Lauren Company LP
- Appeal to the Appointed Person
- Section 5(2)
Result
Appeal to Appointed Person sucessful
Points Of Interest
- The "semantic content" of the marks in issue was "insufficiently similar or analogous to give rise to the mistaken belief that the goods came from the same undertaking or economically-linked undertakings."
Summary
The Appointed Person found that there was no likelihood of confusion, and reversed the <sty decision-link> decision of the Registrar’s Hearing Officer. In particular he noted that the word POLO functioned as an adjective in the applicants’ mark and, most likely, as a noun in that of the opponents.