Registrar of Trade Marks v W and G Du Cros Ltd: HL 1 Aug 1913

Where respondents sought to register the letters ‘W and G’ as a trade mark, held (1) that the registrar was right in deciding whether the mark was registrable when application for registration was made to him under section 12 of the Trade Marks Act 1905; (2) that the mark was not distinctive in the sense of sub-section 5 of section 9 of that Act.
Judgment of the Court of Appeal (1912, 1 Ch. 644) reversed.

Earl Loreburn and Lords Shaw, Mersey, and Parker
[1913] UKHL 588, 51 SLR 588
Bailii
England and Wales

Intellectual Property

Updated: 27 January 2022; Ref: scu.632756