Fuji Television Network Inc v Iron Chef Pizza Pty Ltd
(2020) ATMO 107 (18 June 2020)
This decision concerns an opposition by Fuji Television Network
Inc ("Fuji Television") to an
application by Iron Chef Pizza Pty Ltd ("Iron Chef
Pizza") to register the trade mark IRON CHEF in
respect of food delivery services and related software services
("the pending IRON CHEF trade mark") in
Classes 39 and 41. Fuji Television is a production company that
owns the rights to the Iron Chef franchise of cooking shows.
Fuji Television opposed the pending IRON CHEF trade mark on the
basis that:
- the pending IRON CHEF trade mark is substantially identical
with or deceptively similar to prior registrations for the IRON
CHEF trade mark in respect of kitchen goods and food/entertainment
services owned by Fuji Television (section 44);
