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WITCHCRAFT (Trade Mark: Opposition) [2008] UKIntelP o07008 (6 March 2008)
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Trade mark decision
- BL Number
- O/070/08
- Decision date
- 6 March 2008
- Hearing officer
- Mr Richard Arnold QC
- Mark
- WITCHCRAFT
- Classes
- 03
- Applicant/Appellant
- Raza Syed
- Opponents/Respondents
- E.C. de Witt & Company
- Opposition
- Appeal to the Appointed Person against the decision of the Registrar’s Hearing Officer in opposition proceedings
Result
Appeal dismissed
Points Of Interest
- (i) Comparison of the goods; “While ‘medicated’ goods within Class 5 are likely to be ones that fall within the definition of ‘medicinal product’ in Section 130 of the Medicines Act 1968, this is not necessarily so.”
- (ii) Proof of Use Regulations
- (iii) See also BL O/225/07
Summary
At first instance (see BL O/225/07) the Hearing Officer had found the opposition successful under Sections 5(2)(b) and 5(3). The applicant appealed to the Appointed Person, contending:- (i) the Hearing Officer had wrongly assessed the opponents evidence of use; (ii) was wrong to find more similarities than differences in the goods and (iii) wrong to concluded that the conceptual similarities the marks outweighed the differences. Having reviewed the Hearing Officer’s decision the Appointed Person found that although he had indeed been wrong in one aspect of his proof of use findings this did not materially affect the validity of his overall decision. The appeal was dismissed.