Uganda Case Law

In Re: of an Appliaction for Registration of a Trade Mark, No 24 of 1929 by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. of Ohio, U.S.A.; In Re: of the Registration of Trade Marks Ordinance Chapter 89 Revised Edition of he Laws of Kenya, Section 7, Subsection 5. (C.C. 184/1929 (Msa))

In Re: of an Appliaction for Registration of a Trade Mark, No 24 of 1929 by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. of Ohio, U.S.A.; In Re: of the Registration of Trade Marks Ordinance Chapter 89 Revised Edition of he Laws of Kenya, Section 7, Subsection 5. (C.C. 184/1929 (Msa)) [1929] EACA 60 (1 January 1929)

Court

East African Court of Appeal

Case number

C.C. 184/1929 (Msa)

Judge

Thomas, J. (Kenya)

The court held that limited but growing use of “Gum-Dipped” in Kenya could support distinctiveness for trade mark registration in a young colony.

• Trade Mark Registration
• Distinctiveness Of Marks
• User Requirement
• Trade Mark Law Kenya
• Trade-mark-registration
• Trade-mark-distinctiveness