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This is amusing and not at all surprising. If they only remove from private property & not public right-of-ways, everything will be fine - but you know it won't
by ShakataGaNai 8y ago
This is amusing and not at all surprising. If they only remove from private property & not public right-of-ways, everything will be fine - but you know it won't.
Most importantly "Scoot Scoop" for a name? I imagine they will be get getting a C&D for the use of the "Scoot" name in very, very, very short order.
- scooot 8y agoWhy, what’s wrong with scoot? It introduces brand confusion somehow? Someone has it exclusively trademarked? I doubt it.
- mikeryan 8y agoYes Scoot is trademarked.
- scoooot 8y agoIf it is, I don’t see any i fringement. Who are they infringing upon?
- mikeryan 8y agohttps://scoot.co/san-francisco/ https://scoot.co/san-francisco/
- jessaustin 8y agoThere is no trademark claim at that link. If they ever had a trademark, they haven't taken very good care of it.
- mikeryan 8y agohttp://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=88018747&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=88018747&caseType=SERIAL_N...
- jessaustin 8y agoIANAL, but is it really anyone's responsibility to consult that database? I would have expected the firm to designate its own trademarks whenever it uses them. Besides, the firm under discussion in TFA is not a competitor of this firm and couldn't really be confused with them.
- bigiain 8y agoIsn't descriptive or nominative use an allowed fair use case under trademark law? I think you're allowed to say your business is "iPhone Repairs" even though Apple have trademarked iPhone (and have an army of lawyers who'd love to slap you down if they thought they'd win in court).
- mikeryan 8y agoYou can say your business does “iPhone repairs” but calling your business (descriptive use) “IPhone Repairs” is not permitted.
- coolspot 8y agoIt is interesting that there are two "Scoot" trademarks in same category already: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=86900097&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=86900097&caseType=SERIAL_N... http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=88018747&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=88018747&caseType=SERIAL_N...
- mikeryan 8y agoOnes a computer game, the second is the scooter service. There might be enough difference there for the separate marks.
- CaliforniaKarl 8y agoTow truck drivers often photograph the vehicles they are going to tow, before towing. This is to document the exterior condition of the vehicle, and to show that there were signs in place. The web site says that they are an existing towing business, and so they'll likely do the same thing. Source: See recent videos from http://youtube.com/gtoger http://youtube.com/gtoger, who works at a company in Dallas.
- longcommonname 8y agoUnlike a car, scooters are much easier to move prior to towing.
- jessaustin 8y agoHow is "Scoot" problematic? "Scooter" has been a generic term for, uh, scooters for decades.
- geoelectric 8y agoScoot's slang for "motorcycle" in some crowds too. I agree it's quite generic from the get-go.
- mikeryan 8y agoThere’s nothing preventing someone from trademarking a common word. Apple, for example. In fact multiple orgs can trademark the same word in different fields. In Apples case they were sued by “Apple Corp” the Beatles publishing arm and we’re okay (for the most part - they paid 80k initially) until they started making larger forays into the music space and suddenly they had to pay 24M for use of the name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
- jessaustin 8y agoGP seemed a bit more certain than "someone somewhere might have trademarked the word 'scoot' at some time"?
- darkpuma 8y agoGetting sued by the scooter company they're targeting could be good marketing.