British
and Irish Legal Information Institute
Freely Available British and Irish Public Legal Information
[Home] [Databases] [World Law] [Multidatabase Search] [Help] [Feedback]
United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions
You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> TOTTENHAM (Trade Mark: Opposition) [2001] UKIntelP o52701 (29 October 2001)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2001/o52701.html
Cite as: [2001] UKIntelP o52701
[New search] [Printable PDF version] [Help]
TOTTENHAM (Trade Mark: Opposition) [2001] UKIntelP o52701 (29 October 2001)
For the whole decision click here: o52701
Trade mark decision
- BL Number
- O/527/01
- Decision date
- 29 October 2001
- Hearing officer
- Mr Geoffrey Hobbs QC
- Mark
- TOTTENHAM
- Classes
- 06, 09, 14, 16, 18, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 39, 41, 42
- Applicants/Appellants
- Tottenham Hotspur Plc
- Opponents/Respondents
- Patricia Hard O’Connell & Michael O’Connell
- Appeal against Registrar’s Hearing Officer’s refusal to grant an extension of time in opposition proceedings
Result
Appeal dismissed
Points Of Interest
- 1. "They also engage the public interest in relation to the question whether a quite powerful monopoly, in the form of a trade mark registration ..... should or should not be granted."
Summary
The Appointed Person upheld the Registrar’s decision and dismissed the appeal. In doing so he distinguished this case from that set out in Costellow v Somerset County Council [1993] 1 WLR 256. There was a public interest to be considered, and also the other party could not be compensated by an award of costs.