{"id":2738,"date":"2021-01-06T11:40:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T03:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2024-09-09T09:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T01:11:41","slug":"trademarks-infringement-likelihood-of-causing-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/trademarks-infringement-likelihood-of-causing-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"TRADEMARKS &#8211; INFRINGEMENT \u2013 LIKELIHOOD OF CAUSING CONFUSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Q: I found out that there is a company using similar name with my company. Can I take legal action against them?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You may bring action against the company for trademark infringement.<\/li>\n<li>An action for infringement could be founded upon the unauthorised use of a registered mark as part of a trade or company name.<\/li>\n<li>Upon registration of your trademark, you have a sole and exclusive ownership over the trademark.<\/li>\n<li>If there is someone infringes your trademark, you may commence a legal suit at the High Court against the infringer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Q: What if they argue that they did not use their name 100% exactly like ours? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So long as the name is likely to cause confusion, whether the infringing mark was used in uppercase or lowercase was immaterial.<\/li>\n<li>There should not be a microscopic comparison of the minute differences between the competing marks in deciding the likelihood of confusion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Q: What is the correct approach in deciding whether there is a trademark infringement?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firstly, enquire whether their use of the infringing marks came within the specification of services covered by the registration of your company\u2019s trademark.<\/li>\n<li>The words in a specification of services should be given their natural and ordinary meaning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Q: Any advice for someone who is choosing a business name?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conduct a name search at the business or company registry, a domain name search or at least a search on Google.<\/li>\n<li>This may avoid potential infringement of other people\u2019s trademark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Case in point:<\/em> <em>SkyWorld Development Sdn Bhd &amp; Anor v SkyWorld Holdings Sdn Bhd &amp; Ors&nbsp;[2020] 3 MLJ 294. Court of Appeal (Putrajaya) no: W-02(IPCV)(W)- 383-02 of 2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a company using similar name with my company. Isn\u2019t that trademark infringement? Can I take legal action against them?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1564],"tags":[1543],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intellectual-property","tag-infringement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}