Shoosmiths provides trade mark advice to Happy Space

Happy Space is a charity with a mission to prevent mental health problems from arising wherever possible. It provides schools with the training and resources they need to give outstanding wellbeing education for children and young adults.

Happy Space filed a Trade Mark for HAPPY SPACE to protect the Charities’ identity and reputation. However, this was opposed by the owner of an earlier Trade Mark who were concerned that there may be confusion with the identity that they had created for their own Charity. Given that it was in the interests of both Charities to resolve the matter amicably in order to not to divert funds from charitable purposes, we contacted the earlier Trade Mark owner and, over a period of months, managed to negotiate a coexistence agreement that allayed the concerns of all parties and allowed both Charities to continue with their valuable work unhindered.

‘Shoosmiths were amazing at helping us fight an Opposition by a famous personality. They talked us through the process, at no cost to us, and actually settled the matter really quickly by negotiating a settlement that allowed us to use our Trade Mark as we needed but satisfied the Opponents so that they withdrew their Opposition. We were also able to file a better version of our Trade Mark as part of the settlement.’