Trade Mark Protection Endorsed For Apartment Manager
Can a business obtain the registration of a trade mark for services where the mark concerned is also the name of the building from which the services are supplied? This was the central issue for determination in a recent Federal Court decision involving the well-known Q1 building on the Gold Coast.
On 19 July 2012, Justice Reeves decided that this was no reason to prevent Mantra from obtaining a trade mark registration for “Q1” for the hotel and real estate services provided by it from the Q1 building.