Trade mark decision
- BL Number
- O/007/08
- Decision date
- 10 January 2008
- Hearing Officer
- Mr M Reynolds
- Mark
- MFI Make It Happen
- Classes
- 20, 35, 36
- Applicants
- MFI Retail Limited
- Opponents
- Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc
- Opposition
- Section 5(4)(a)
Result
Section 5(4)(a): Opposition failed.
Points Of Interest
- Slogans; evidence necessary to establish a goodwill
Summary
The opposition was based upon the opponent’s own use of the mark ‘MAKE IT HAPPEN’. However, the evidence filed was, in the view of the Hearing Officer, not such as to establish their claims to a goodwill in that slogan, solus. The opposition failed accordingly.
Full decision O/007/08 
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