Trade mark decision

BL Number

O/324/02

Decision date

8 August 2002

Hearing Officer

Dr W J Trott

Mark

TRANSFRAME INTERNATIONAL

Classes

06, 12

Applicants

Transframe International Limited

Opponents

Metalforce Limited

Opposition

Sections 3(3)(b); 3(6) & 5(4)(a)

Result

Section 3(3)(b) - Opposition failed.

Section 3(6) - Opposition failed.

Section 5(4)(a) - Opposition successful.

Points Of Interest

• 1. See BL O/323/02

Summary

This was the second of two closely related actions, the other being set out in BL O/323/02, qv. The Hearing Officer applied his findings in that action, mutatis mutandis, to this case with the additional finding that the Section 3(3)(b) ground (not pleaded in the other case) had no basis. He also found that the addition of the word INTERNATIONAL did not provide a reason to come to a different conclusion under Section 5(4)(a) from that he had arrived at in BL O/323/02.

Full decision O/324/02 9Kb