Practice Amendment Notice

PAN 3/06 - Issued 12 April 2006

This notice affects examination practice about examples of marks considered to be objectionable under Section 3(3)(a).

This is not a change of practice, but some of the examples have been changed to clarify current practice. Paragraph 39.4 has been replaced by the following:

39.4 Examples of marks considered to be objectionable under Section 3(3)(a)

The first column contains a list of example marks. Read across a row to find why each mark would be considered objectionable under section 3(3)(a).
Mark	Reason for objection under Section 3(3)(a)
JESUS	Contrary to public policy; offence is caused by the fact that an accepted religious value is likely to be undermined to a significant extent if this word is used as a trade mark.
WHITE DOVE YOU DON'T NEED WINGS TO FLY	Contrary to public policy as it would be seen as promoting drugs (White Dove is a nickname for a type of drug)
SNUFF MOVIES	Contrary to public policy as it would be seen as promoting pornography and murder.
	Contrary to accepted principles of morality in view of bad language.
FOOK	Contrary to accepted principles of morality as it is phonetically identical to, and visually similar to the taboo word FU*K in some regional dialects in the UK