Sorry this is not all that helpful. This just afirms the principle that they can
be challenged, but does not say it covers UK.http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/08/1559250
Contains
link to Yahoo news article and discussion about it.
Page down 3 or 4 times and
you will see my posting. Some intelligent moderators gave me Score:5, Insightful
;-)
ANYHOW (reason for this post) - it is all driven by a false premises:
Primarily,
that any word belongs to one company, above another of same name. That any big business
can have sole use of any dictionary word - especially if person using it is not trying
to pass off as specific trademark.
Some links -
http://www.idg.net/ic_778197_1773_1-3921.html
Chinese
Report: No special rights given for famous Web names
Shows that big business, governmental
organizations and educational organizations do not have right of words above others.