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Photo from CA website MANILA - The Court of Appeals (CA) has dismissed an international hotel firm's trademark suit involving the use of the letter "W" against a real estate firm. "To consider otherwise would be to grant the petitioner a monopoly over the letter W," the appellate court said in its 15-page decision by the CA's Fifth Division dated April 29 written by Associate Justice Apolinario Bruselas Jr., which affirmed the decision of the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) on the case. The suit had been initiated by the Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, LLC which uses a trademark with a prominent letter "W " on top of the word "Hotels". This is a confusing similarity on the trademark of real estate firm, Oceanic Empire Limited, which filed on June 19, 2015 an application for the registration of its trademark "W Global Center". The CA affirmed the decision last June 22 of the IPO Director General against the hotel oper
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