If the trademark application had been for tyres, the issue wouldn't have arisen at all.
Trademarks are usually registered for a specific category of goods or services -- hence, we can have Monster energy drinks and Monster.com job search and Monster cables all trademarked by different companies, since they're all different categories. The issue here was that Veber was trying to register a "Python" trademark that would have conflicted with the PSF's existing use of the name.
Trademarks are usually registered for a specific category of goods or services -- hence, we can have Monster energy drinks and Monster.com job search and Monster cables all trademarked by different companies, since they're all different categories. The issue here was that Veber was trying to register a "Python" trademark that would have conflicted with the PSF's existing use of the name.