Section 11 raises a matter between the applicant and the public, and therefore any member of the public can rely on it.
Judges:
Lord Macnaghten
Citations:
(1890) 7 RPC 311
Statutes:
Trade Marks Registration Act 1875 11
Cited by:
Cited – Anheuser-Busch Inc v Budejovicky Bodvar Narodni Podnik; Budejovicky Bodvar Narodni Podnik v Anheuser-Busch CA 7-Feb-2000
The registration of two trade marks (‘Budweiser’) with the identical names was against the Act since it would appear to encourage the very confusion the Act sought to avoid. Nevertheless, where there was genuine honest concurrent use, that use might . .
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Intellectual Property
Updated: 10 May 2022; Ref: scu.258733