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TM infringement and false advertising claims related to putative open source software "fork" succeed

43(B)log

It has more than 400 commercial customers, including global enterprises such as Walmart, Comcast, Cisco, and eBay, and also does substantial business with government agencies, including US agencies. It has trademark registrations for the word mark “NEO4J.” Summary judgment granted on state and federal false advertising claims.

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Marketing and IPR

IP and Legal Filings

A trade name is a name under which a company pursues its business and needs to be distinguished from the entity’s registered or legal name. Many countries require registering a trade name or business name in a special register. The majority of businesses are worth more than the whole of their physical assets.

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Precedential No. 29: After an Exhausting 2(d) Analysis, TTAB Finds HME (Stylized) Confusable with KME for Building Products

The TTABlog

In 2019, applicant effectively acquired the assets of opposer’s brass division and tubes manufacturing business. Applicant manufactures, advertises and sells, under the stylized HME mark, goods that opposer previously sold, to customers who previously were opposer’s customers in the United. Seems like a nonsequitur to me - ed.

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Trademark: What’s In it for You?

Velocity of Content

In contrast, trademarks in the United States —in some instances referred to as service marks or trade names—are created by use by a person “in commerce”; technically, no government approval is required. Copyright Office, after what amounts to a much lighter review process. See also: RC Cola, Polar Cola, Jolt!—and and so on. )

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Importance of Nice Classification

IP and Legal Filings

The Nice Agreement, concluded at Nice in 1957, revised at Stockholm in 1967 and at Geneva in 1977, and amended in 1979, establishes a classification of goods and services for the purposes of registering trademarks and service marks (the Nice Classification).

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Dastar doesn't bar allegedly false advertising about source of planned development services

43(B)log

They allegedly wrongfully ousted Corkum and, when he asserted his rights, incorporated Oak City to continue the business, allegedly with LStar’s equipment, money, and intellectual property. Defendants' letter allegedly copied text from LStar Trademark infringement: LStar never specified what its trademarks or service marks were.

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TM co-owner can't challenge uses authorized by other co-owners (bonus Lexmark reasoning)

43(B)log

The Giant agreement provided that the service mark “JADE” would be held exclusively by the Jade Group, that at no time would more than one member of the Jade Group appear on a non-Jade Group recording, and that no additional members would be added to the Jade Group without Giant’s consent.