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Aaron Hetherington

Associate
UK

I am a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney in our London Intellectual Property team, specialising in brand management.

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Thomas Hooper

Senior Associate
UK

I am a brand protection lawyer in the London Intellectual Property team. I help clients build, exploit, enforce and rationalise portfolios of trade mark and design rights around the world. I also handle related disputes and contentious proceedings.

On 26th January 2018, Star Trek Private Equity LLC (the Applicant) filed EU trade mark (EUTM) application No 17741497 for the STAR TREK SPORT NUTRITION figurative mark (shown right) in relation to “dietary and nutritional supplements” in class 5.


CBS Studios Inc, the successor of all rights associated with the Star Trek television series, and all related series, films and merchandise, opposed the application. The opposition was filed on the basis of CBS’s EUTM registration No 5150446 for the word mark STAR TREK and on the grounds of Article 8(5) EUTMR.

This article was written for the CITMA Review.

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