Case Law > Trade Marks
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 Section 42 of the old Act provided that, after the expiration of seven years from the date of entry onto the register, that the registration is take to be valid in all respects and that mark could therefore not be attacked on grounds relating to the marks original registration. |
| 29/02/2000 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 In this case the Court was faced with an application for the partial expungement of a trade mark specification on the ground of non-use.
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 The Court held that factors such as honest concurrent use did not constitute a statutory defence to trade mark infringement. |
| 29/01/1999 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 In this case, however, it was held that, if the trade mark application relied on was without substance or for some reason invalid, that application does not qualify as a person aggrieved. |
| 30/01/1998 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 In casu, the Appellate Division found that use of the trade mark SPACEY in relation to a child's pencil box infringed the trade mark SPACE CASE, which was registered for, inter alia, pencil boxes, despite the that the trade mark was registered with a disclaimer of the words "space" and "case". |
| 31/05/1996 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
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