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trademarks are market specific. You could be a bookstore called "whatever book" and be fine. You could not be a social network and call yourself "whatever book"
by austhrow743 7y ago
trademarks are market specific. You could be a bookstore called "whatever book" and be fine. You could not be a social network and call yourself "whatever book". The general idea is to prevent things from being associated with a brand in the consumers mind when that thing has no right to the association.
- bskap 7y agoSome of the markets they're applying for seem a little questionable. Looks like they're trying to claim far more than just social network. * Downloadable e-commerce computer software to allow users to perform electronic business transactions via a global computer and communication networks * Magnetically encoded gift cards; * Software for accessing and viewing text, images and electronic data relating to conferences in the field of software development; * Software for making reservations and bookings; * Software for ordering and/or purchasing goods and services * Software to enable accessing, displaying, editing, linking, sharing and otherwise providing electronic media and information via the internet and communications networks
- jfk13 7y ago> * Magnetically encoded gift cards; That'll be interesting in the UK and Ireland, at least, given the existence of National Book Tokens (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Tokens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Tokens, https://www.nationalbooktokens.com https://www.nationalbooktokens.com), which I believe are magstripe-based these days.
- XJ6 7y ago> * Software for making reservations and bookings; The word BOOKing should be a giant flag that they're trying to trademark the generic name there. Reservation book, order book, etc all come from physical books. It would be a giant stretch to try to trademark book for software covering those things.