"Barclays is happy to confirm that Cooper Parry is an independent company and that we never had any intention of implying otherwise. Our advertising campaign will continue with the first airing this Friday of the third of four ads."Cooper Parry said:
""Barclays has acted rapidly to address our concerns in this atter and at the end of the day we accept that no harm was intended. We can all now get back to what we do best -- helping our clients achieve their business goals."
Annoying Jeremy - now there's a thought...
The IPKat says that it’s always tricky when a bigger company (often innocently) starts using a trade mark that coincides with that of a smaller company, particularly if the earlier right is unregistered. There is a risk that the bigger company’s access to the media will destroy the efficacy of the earlier mark, but the bigger company may have had no way of finding out about the existence of the smaller company. Merpel observes that the more that companies employ banal phrases as their trade marks, there more chance there is that someone will have got there first and will be using it, albeit on a small scale.
Thanks to Simon Haslam for pointing out this story.
I think a lightbulb, though conventionally indicating the concept of creative thought, generally proves turns out to be the fruit of unthinking and slavish adherence to visual cliches. Is that not richly ironic?
ReplyDeletePerhaps, but it appears that you rose to my bait :-D
ReplyDeleteCooper Parry applied to register the mark in the UK on 10 October 2005 for a range of products and services. Is the application likely to be accepted and/or will it be opposed successfully or unsuccessfully by Barclays?
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