Under s 120(1), trade mark infringement requires actual deceptive similarity established through substantive comparison—not reputation of the registered mark. Reputation evidence is admissible only to counter a claim of imperfect recollection, and descriptive or common elements of acronym marks must be discounted in the similarity analysis.
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