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Pop Goes The Merchandise Mark

The BBC reports that the popular star Robbie Williams has registered his lift every bit a merchandise score for “goods ranging from videos in addition to CDs to crayons in addition to napkins.
He is too protected for "printed matter", which includes calendars”.

is a trivial puzzled. Thorough mouser that he is, he paid a catch to the Patent Office website in addition to searched for Mr William’s merchandise mark. Lo in addition to behold, he constitute both a CTM registration in addition to a UK registration. To his surprise though, spell the BBC’s even out was dated 26 Dec 2003, the registrations were dated eleven September 1998 in addition to nineteen June 1998 respectively. suspects that either: (i) the BBC were trying to “create” unopen to tidings over the placidity festive catamenia or (ii) that the Patent Office has been trying to drum upwards merchandise past times issuing a press liberate explaining how the merchandise score organisation industrial plant in addition to has used Robbie Williams every bit an illustration to attract people’s attention. notes that the even out does teach into a corking grade of item nigh the workings of the system, though peradventure non plenty since, according to the BBC, “The 29-year-old is covered for a broad make of music in addition to video recordings every bit good every bit article of apparel merchandise nether the price of the patent”. (Yes – the IPKat is a pedant, in addition to what’s more, he’s proud to live on one).

too doubts that Robbie Williams volition teach a especially broad orbit of protection. There are many people whose names are variations of the underlying lift Robert Williams who, fifty-fifty inwards the instance of confusion, volition live on able to rely on the ain lift defense strength to merchandise score infringement.

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