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REPLAY (Trade Mark: Opposition) [2001] UKIntelP o43701 (4 October 2001)

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Trade mark decision

BL Number
O/437/01
Decision date
4 October 2001
Hearing officer
Dr W J Trott
Mark
REPLAY
Classes
09, 28
Applicant
G T Interactive Software (Europe) Ltd
Opponents
Fashion Box SPA
Opposition
Sections 5(2)(b); 5(3) & 5(4)(a)**other grounds were cited but these were dismissed by the Hearing Officer at the outset.

Result

Section 5(2)(b) - Opposition failed

Section 5(3) - Opposition failed

Section 5(4)(a) - Opposition failed

Points Of Interest

Summary

The opposition was based on the opponents’ registrations of their mark REPLAY. The consideration under Section 5(2)(b) therefore came down to a comparison of the goods. The opponents had a Community Trade Mark application covering identical goods in Class 28, but this was dated later than the application in suit and thus was not an earlier trade mark. The goods covered by the opponents’ earlier marks were, in the view of the Hearing Officer, too dissimilar for any likelihood of confusion. Under Section 5(3) the Hearing Officer concluded that the opponents had not established a case, and under Section 5(4)(a) he found that the goodwill which the opponents had established was in clothing, and those were too dissimilar to the games and toys in the application.


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