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Par for the Course for Western Golf Association in Korea

by Mark VB Partridge on Tue 28 Oct 2008 11:56 AM CDT | Permanent Link

My colleagues Jonathan S. Jennings and Ashly Iacullo prevailed in an opposition against the application to register WGA for a variety of golf services on behalf of the Western Golf Association and its famous WGA mark for a variety of golf services offered since 1899, including the running of golf tournaments and a scholarship for caddies.

Although based in the United States, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) found that WGA was a well-respected golf association and that WGA was a source identifier for these services. The KIPO also found in rejecting the application to register that the "application is judged to have been filed in bad faith to free-ride the fame of the opposer’s WGA mark."

Pattishall attorneys worked with Kyung Jae Park of the Book Chon firm in Korea. See Western Golf Association v. Chi-Young Cho & Wha-Seok Yang, Opposition No. 40-2008-1387 (Korean Intellectual Property Office, October 15, 2008).

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