The court considered a suituation where a company had applied to register its own trade mark again.
Held: Cozens-Hardy J said that a second registration of the identical mark by the same proprietor was superfluous and absurd. It would ‘cumber the register needlessly and unnecessarily’.
Judges:
Cozens-Hardy J
Citations:
(1900) 18 RPC 65
Cited by:
Cited – Cussons (New Zealand) Pty Limited v Unilever Plc and others PC 20-Nov-1997
(New Zealand) The defendants appealed against an interlocutory injunction restraining them from use of a trade mark which was said to be infringing. The mark had not been used and was vulnerable to being removed, and Cussons applied for the removal . .
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Intellectual Property
Updated: 10 May 2022; Ref: scu.258726
