Trade Mark Invalidity and Revocation Decision 0/523/01
TRADE MARKS ACT 1994 IN THE MATTER OF TRADE MARK REGISTRATION Nos: 1295657, 1295658, 1295659, 1328847, 1431537, 2000367, 2000371, 2045198, 2045199, 2052422, 2134017, 2146828, 2149387 & 2159254 IN THE NAME OF UDV NORTH AMERICA INC AND IN THE MATTER OF APPLICATIONS FOR REVOCATION AND DECLARATIONS OF INVALIDITY THERETO UNDER Nos: 11286 TO 11299 BY AKTSIONERNOE OBCHTCHESTVO ZAKRITOGO TIPA “TORGOVY” DOM POTOMKOV POSTAVCHTCHIKA DVORA EGO IMPERATORSKAGO VELITSCHESTVA P.A. SMIRNOVA TRADE MARKS ACT 1994 IN THE MATTER OF Trade Mark Registration Nos: 1295657, 1295658, 1295659, 1328847, 1431537, 2000367, 2000371, 2045198, 2045199, 2052422, 2134017, 2146828, 2149387 & 2159254 in the name of UDV NORTH AMERICA INC AND IN THE MATTER OF Applications for Revocation and Declarations of Invalidity thereto under Nos: 11286 to 11299 by AKTSIONERNOE OBCHTCHESTVO ZAKRITOGO TIPA “TORGOVY” DOM POTOMKOV POSTAVCHTCHIKA DVORA EGO IMPERATORSKAGO VELITSCHESTVA P.A. SMIRNOVA BACKGROUND 1. On 13 December 1999, Aktsionernoe Obchtchestvo Zakritogo Tipa “Torgovy” Dom Potomkov Postavchtchika Dvora Ego Imperatorskago Velitschestva p.a. Smirnova applied to revoke and have declared invalid fourteen registrations standing in the name of UDV North America, Inc. The registered proprietor filed counterstatements in which all of the grounds are denied. The details of the registrations in question, together with the basis of the attack against each are shown later in this decision. Suffice is to say at this point that the principal grounds of attack are similar in respect of each; that similar evidence was filed by both sides in respect of these actions and the submissions by learned Counsel were of a composite nature when the matters came to be heard on 24 and 25 April 2001.
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