Charity Trademark Assistance

keyser666

Hi all,

Wonder if you could help. We are a new charity registered with the Charity commission in Scotland for some 6 months now. We worked bloody long and hard to raise the required minimum funds to succeed in this application. We have registered our domain names and associated .co.uk & .com domains and variations, social media pages etc etc (I work in IT so am au fait with all of this) We are now looking to trademark the charity name, not so much the logo but are likely to include this.

Part of our charity had some members who were not trustees nor officers but they have broken away from the core group and are starting to fundraise under a very similar name. Although we can prove beyond doubt that we existed before we are looking forward. Some questions if I may:

1. If I was to registered the charity name, for example lets say it is: "MedicalName UK" would this be allowed to be registered - It is the medical term we are using with the word UK on the end
2. If we are allowed to register the above (I have checked similar and seems so ) how close does someone need to be to infringe, so for example our named trademark would be "MedicalName UK" but the other group has theirs as "UK MedicalName Research" is this close enough for an infringement? We really dont want the other group being confused with ours

Thanks in advance for any info.