<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Colleagues, <div>apologies for my absence in any debate here until now.</div><div>I have however been following.</div><div><br></div><div>Just wanted to give full support to Brian Winterfeldt on the exclusions of pictorial marks.</div><div>I agree with him for all the reasons given.</div><div><br></div><div>Moreover, the majority of good faith marks will also have filed a word mark equivalent.</div><div>Where this has not happened, this raises doubt.</div><div><br></div><div>Philip</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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