Read the full judgment text of CACV 000037/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 22 December 1971.
1. From time to time the appellants have registered various trade marks in Hong Kong in respect of manufactured tobacco products (class 34) which, of course, includes cigarettes. The first of these was no.58 of 1911 under which they registered The words "BLACK CAT" per se. Later registrations were of composite marks consisting of such things as a representation of a black cat coupled with the words BLACK CAT and a representation of three cats coupled with the words "THREE CATS".