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Acquiring a trademark just sets a floor for when you acquired the trademark, it doesn't mean someone else hasn't already acquired it - that is a question that c
by jeremyjh 5y ago
Acquiring a trademark just sets a floor for when you acquired the trademark, it doesn't mean someone else hasn't already acquired it - that is a question that courts have to settle.
- masklinn 5y ago> it doesn't mean someone else hasn't already acquired it It goes further than that: trademarks are registered in 45 different classes and trademarks of different classes are completely independent, but the USPTO goes by > "Trademark, same name, same class” meaning more than one entity can register the same trademark name in the same class, because trademarks have a requirement of distinctiveness.