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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> MSTREAM (Trade Mark: Opposition) [2004] UKIntelP o00204 (6 January 2004) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2004/o00204.html Cite as: [2004] UKIntelP o00204, [2004] UKIntelP o204 |
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For the whole decision click here: o00204
Result
Section 5(2)(b) - Opposition failed
Points Of Interest
Summary
The opponents' opposition was based on their ownership of registrations for the marks MIDSTREAM TECHNOLOGIES and MIDSTREAM TECHNOLOGIES and device in a range of Classes encompassing identical and similar goods and services as those of the applicants. In his decision the Hearing Officer identified those goods and services of the applicants where he considered there was no similarity and therefore no grounds for objection.
Under Section 5(2)(b) the only matter to be decided was whether the respective marks were confusingly similar. As the opponents’ marks consisted of or incorporate the dictionary word MIDSTREAM he did not think there was any conceptual similarity to the applicants’ letter and word mark MSTREAM. Also the respective marks were visually and phonetically different. Overall the respective marks were not similar and opposition thus failed even in respect of identical goods and services.
