Intellectual Property

Ferdo Ltd. v. Ibeto Industries Ltd. [2004]

By section 9(1), in order for a trade mark to be registrable in Part A of the register, it must contain or consist of at least one of the following essential particulars: (a) the name of a company, individual or film represented in a special or particular manner; (b) the signature of the applicant for registration or some predecessor in his business; (c) an invented word or invented words; (d) a word or words having no direct reference to the character or quality of the goods, and not being according to its ordinary signification, a geographical name or a surname; (e) any other distinctive mark

~ Niki Tobi, JSC, CON

(July 14, 1940 – June 19, 2016))