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Do you consider \u201cGAP\u201d (the clothing brand) and \u201cMIND THE GAP\u201d (the warning on the London underground) to be confusingly similar?<\/p>\n
The UKIPO had to consider this recently as Gap opposed Transport for London\u2019s UK trade mark application (no. 03694283<\/a>) for \u201cMIND THE GAP\u201d for goods such as contact lenses, glasses, suitcases, types of bags, purses and wallets.<\/p>\n Gap and TfL both considered that their confidential agreement from 2004 (if relevant) included that TfL would not apply for the wording of \u201cMIND THE GAP\u201d alone in relation to \u201cclothing accessories\u201d<\/em>. However, TfL did not consider that the goods applied for were clothing accessories.<\/p>\n Gap relied on the following grounds when opposing TfL\u2019s trade mark application:<\/p>\n The post Gap wins opposition to TfL\u2019s \u201cMIND THE GAP\u201d UK trade mark application<\/a> appeared first on Fox Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you consider \u201cGAP\u201d (the clothing brand) and \u201cMIND THE GAP\u201d (the warning on the London underground) to be confusingly similar? The UKIPO had to consider this recently as Gap opposed Transport for London\u2019s UK trade mark application (no. 03694283) for \u201cMIND THE GAP\u201d for goods such as contact lenses, glasses, suitcases, types of bags, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[14235,9283,3966,5809,31562,92497,9792,92496,10829],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-254894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-application","tag-gap","tag-mark","tag-mind","tag-opposition","tag-tfls","tag-trade","tag-trade-marks","tag-wins"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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