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Ruling summary
An application to remove the trademark MULTI FEED, registered in the animal-feed field in the name of the applicants' former business partner. The IP adjudicator held that the goodwill in the mark was the product of the parties' business partnership, that registering it in one party's name alone was done in bad faith, and ordered the mark removed from the register. The mark's owner was ordered to pay costs and legal fees totalling NIS 20,000. The firm represented the removal applicants. (Patents, Designs and Trademarks Authority, application to remove and cancel trademark 287210, 31.5.2021)