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GT NET (Trade Mark: Opposition) [2001] UKIntelP o44901 (19 September 2001)

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Trade mark decision

BL Number
O/449/01
Decision date
19 September 2001
Hearing officer
Mr S Thorley QC
Mark
GT NET
Classes
38, 42
Applicant
Minister for Civil Service
Opponent
Deutsche Telekom AG
Opposition
Section 5(2)(b)

Result

Appeal dismissed. - Opposition failed.

Points Of Interest

Summary

The opponent appealed on the basis that the Hearing Officer had misdirected himself as to public awareness of the word NET as at the date of application (1996); that he had taken insufficient account of the fact that TNET was an invented word; that he had not compared the respective marks as wholes and that he had taken insufficient account of the fact that identical services were at issue. The Appointed Person dismissed all these submissions and upheld the Hearing Officer’s decision that the applicant’s marks GTNET were not confusingly similar to the opponent’s TNET.


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