C expended considerable research and effort coming up with name ‘Exxon’ for its corporate group. C sued D, who used word Exxon in their company name. Issue was whether word Exxon was a ‘literary work’. Held:
· A single invented word alone and by itself IS NOT a ‘literary work’
· For such a word to be literary work, would have to have qualities and characteristics in itself
Ø Rather than only having a meaning when accompanied by other words
Ø This unlikely to be possible in practice
· Fact that research went into its creation irrelevant