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You are wrong. TRADEMARKS have to be defended or you lose them. Patent lawsuits can be targeted
by wombatpm 7y ago
You are wrong. TRADEMARKS have to be defended or you lose them. Patent lawsuits can be targeted
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoYou also are wrong. Trademarks can be lost by non-payment of the renewal fees, or by genericisation. Failing to sue someone is not cause for cancellation of registered marks. Neither in USA nor EU AFAIAA. This is not legal advice; it is my personal opinion and makes no representation about any associate or employee that I might be linked with.
- dctoedt 7y ago> Failing to sue someone is not cause for cancellation of registered marks. Not quite. Thermos, escalator, and cellophane became generic terms, free for anyone to use, because everyone started using them and the trademark owners didn't try to stop them. [0] That's why Xerox famously advertised that we should say that we made a Xerox copy of a document, not that we xeroxed it. (Aspirin also became generic, and thus free for anyone to use, in the U.S., but that's because the trademark was seized from its German owner, Bayer AG, as part of reparations after World War I. [1] Aspirin is still a trademark of Bayer in most of the rest of the world.) [0] https://www.inta.org/INTABulletin/Pages/ASPIRINBrandorAspirinTabletsAvoidingtheGenericideHeadacheintheUnitedStates.aspx https://www.inta.org/INTABulletin/Pages/ASPIRINBrandorAspiri... [1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-13-fi-38019-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-13-fi-38019-...