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 >>
EBC (Trade Mark: Opposition) [2003] UKIntelP o13203 (13 May 2003)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2003/o13203.html
Cite as:
[2003] UKIntelP o13203
[
New search]
[
Printable PDF version]
[
Help]
EBC (Trade Mark: Opposition) [2003] UKIntelP o13203 (13 May 2003)
For the whole decision click here: o13203
Trade mark decision
- BL Number
- O/132/03
- Decision date
- 13 May 2003
- Hearing officer
- Professor Ruth Annand
- Mark
- EBC
- Classes
- 01, 07, 09, 12
- Applicants
- Andrew Charles Freeman
- Opponents
- European Battery Company Limited
- Request for an appeal in opposition proceedings to be referred to the Court
Result
Request for referral of appeal to the court, denied.
Points Of Interest
-
Request by the appellant, for referral of appeal, refused.
Summary
The appellant claimed that the appeal had been lodged with the Appointed Person under pressure of time and because no extensions of time could be obtained from the Trade Marks Registry. The Court was in fact the preferred route of appeal. The Appointed Person however did not accept that the reasons put forward amounted to such a rare circumstance as to justify a use of the discretionary power to refer which can be used even in the absence of a point of general legal importance; 'the timely obtaining of instructions as to the venue for appeal is a matter between client and representative' she observed.