Tag Archives: uspto

Tue 17th March 2015
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Trademark King still wants to TM famous outlines and brands - Company submits specimens for many of its dubious trademark applications. Proof of use for a domain name owned by another person?The company that spent about $50,000 trying to trademark what are mostly famous brands, trademarks and common phrases is still pushing on after receiving initial refusals from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Indiana company Trademark King Inc filed over 150 trademark applications around Thanksgiving last year. The applications include a lot of famous brands (e.g. ... read more ...
Tue 29th July 2014
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Company wants to heading a tenure “Domain Auction” - After reading what I wrote, it almost makes me think that the single best strategy one of the new TLD companies can use to guarantee long term success would be to create a handful of sites with broad appeal with their TLD. So, instead of slogans and hype, they’ve got to either encourage or develop a few great sites under their TLD. I honestly think that if the the majority of US consumers saw or heard an advertisement for a site that is not a mainstream TLD, they wouldn’t even know ... read more ...
Mon 12th August 2013
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USPTO considers trademarks for tip turn domain names - In the future, top level domains could be trademarked in the U.S. under limited circumstances. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is seeking feedback on a plan to allow companies to trademark top level domains – albeit under limited circumstances. The plan would not allow companies to get trademarks on top level domain names they don’t have under contract with ICANN, nor would it allow them to trademark most generic TLDs. However, it would be a shift from the ... read more ...
Tue 17th August 2010
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Company Wants Trademark for .Secure - I am assuming that you are referring to the .MUSIC trademarks and brand equity that we have created and will be expanding upon in the next few months. I think you were comparing apples with oranges here (.secure vs .MUSIC). We have just launched the second installation of our outreach campaign for communicating to the music industry and artists about .MUSIC and how we will help the music industry with our platform and innovations. We will be sponsoring, participating and be actively ... read more ...
Mon 21st June 2010
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Name Administration Reaches Settlement over Cheat Code Mark - Company settles trademark dispute. Frank Schilling’s company Name Administration has reached a settlement with the holder of a trademark for Cheat Code, according to documents at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Late last year CheatCodes.com LLC started going after people who had “cheat code” in their domain names, thanks to somehow slipping the generic term “Cheat Code” past a USPTO examiner. It went after small webmasters, but also sent a demand ... read more ...
Wed 2nd December 2009
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Name Administration Challenges “Cheat Code” Trademark - Frank Schilling’s company files petition for cancellation after trademark owner threatens it. If you’ve ever filed for a trademark, you know that it can be a challenging process to get approval. Just ask hotels.com and mattress.com, which have failed in their attempts. But trademarks are inevitably improperly approved by the Unites States Patent and Trademark Office every day. Such is the case with “Cheat Code”, a generic term referring to codes in video ... read more ...