Titanic maker to trademark Gigantic

Last updated 10:24 19/02/2013

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"Besides, Titanic is in the vernacular as well."

But Dr Jay Sanderson, a lecturer at Griffith University Law School, said Palmer may find himself facing "a number of potential issues" - and not just with Gigantic.

"One of the key functions of trademark law is to distinguish between goods and services," Sanderson said.


Which could also prove an issue with the word Titanic - which has already been at the centre of several trademark legal wrangles in different countries.

The film studio which made the blockbuster movie Titanic in the late 1990s - then 20th Century Fox - holds the trademark for the word Titanic in class 41, the trademark class which covers entertainment services, movies and motion pictures.

Sanderson said, feasibly, someone could trademark the word Titanic in a different class, but that wouldn't stop trademark holders from taking action if there was a chance people could be "deceived or confused" between the two.


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- Brisbane Times


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