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REZACTRA (Trade Mark: Invalidity) [2001] UKIntelP o27501 (26 June 2001)
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Trade mark decision
- BL Number
- O/275/01
- Decision date
- 26 June 2001
- Hearing officer
- Mr M Reynolds
- Mark
- REZACTRA
- Classes
- 05
- Registered Proprietor
- SB Pharmco Puerto Rico Inc
- Applicants for Declaration of Invalidity
- H Lundbeck A/S
- Invalidation
- Section 47(2)(a)
Result
Section 47(2)(a) - Application for invalidation successful
Points Of Interest
- 1. The comparison of the marks REZACTRA v RESACT.
Summary
The applicants for invalidation contended that the mark had been registered in breach of Section 5(2)(b), having regard to their registration of the mark RESACT, covering pharmaceutical preparations acting on the central nervous system, for human use. Comparing the marks in the light of the existing authorities the Hearing Officer concluded that there was a likelihood of confusion "not in the sense that the one mark might be taken for the other, but that both might be thought to emanate from the same trade source".