{"id":155,"date":"2018-01-17T05:25:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T05:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=155"},"modified":"2023-11-24T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T06:00:30","slug":"is-the-trademark-dunlohoo-confusingly-similar-to-the-registered-trademark-dunlop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veralaw.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Is the trademark DUNLOHOO confusingly similar to the registered trademark DUNLOP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited v. Rizhao Kaishun Tire Co. Ltd. (Nov. 16, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited opposed the DUNLOHOO trademark application of Rizhao Kaishun Tire Co., Ltd (\u201cRizhao\u201d) on the basis of its existing registration for DUNLOP which covers \u201ctyres made India rubber\u201d under class 12. Rizhao\u2019s trademark application for DUNLOHOO covers the following class 12 goods: \u201ctractors; inner tubes for pneumatic tires [tyres]; automobile tires [tyres]; electric vehicles; motorcycles; cars; bicycles; mobility scooters; tyres for vehicle wheels; solid tyres for vehicle wheels\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The IPO Bureau of Legal Affairs sustained the opposition and pointed out that Rizhao copied the first five (5) letters \u201cD-U-N-L-O\u201d in Sumitomo\u2019s mark \u201cDUNLOP\u201d and added the three (3) additional letters \u201cH-O-O\u201d in an attempt to vary it from Sumitomo\u2019s mark. The IPO Bureau of Legal Affairs however ruled that \u201cconfusing similarity cannot be eluded\u201d and that \u201cthe conclusion created by the use of the same word as the primary element in a trademark is not countenanced by the addition of another term\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Moreover, the IPO Bureau of Legal Affairs found that the goods upon which the competing marks are used are similar, if not identical. Thus, the likelihood that the consumers would be mistaken, confused or deceived into believing that the goods come from the same source or origin, is greater than when the goods are non-competing. As such, the IPO Bureau of Legal Affairs denied Rizhao\u2019s trademark application for DUNLOHOO.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited v. Rizhao Kaishun Tire Co. Ltd. (Nov. 16, 2017) Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited opposed the DUNLOHOO trademark application of Rizhao Kaishun Tire Co., Ltd (\u201cRizhao\u201d) on the basis of its existing registration for DUNLOP which covers \u201ctyres made&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veralaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veralaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veralaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veralaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veralaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.veralaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/www.veralaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veralaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veralaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veralaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}