#trademarks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #trademarks, aggregated by home.social.
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/07/18/openai-loses-eu-court-challenge-over-its-word-mark-xcxwbn/
OpenAI lost its EU court challenge over the OPENAI branding after judges found the name descriptive for specified software and cloud computing services.
#AI #OpenAI #Trademarks #EIFO #IntellectualProperty #EuropeanUnion #Europe #ChatGPT
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If you say you are "Open", you really need to be open. Otherwise, you will be seen as nothing more than a bullshiter.
"The EUIPO found that the word "open" would be understood by the relevant public as meaning freely accessible, while the combination with "AI" (artificial intelligence) would be interpreted as referring to products based on openly accessible artificial intelligence.
OpenAI had argued that the word "open" has multiple possible meanings and that "OPENAI" is a coined term without a fixed meaning. The company also cited comparable trademark registrations previously granted by the EUIPO and registrations in more than 30 other countries, including the United Kingdom and Singapore.
The court rejected these arguments. It ruled that the combination of words was not an unusual linguistic combination in English. Furthermore, registrations in other jurisdictions were not binding under EU trademark law."
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Court ruling: OpenAI loses trademark dispute before EU court
OpenAI has lost a trademark dispute in an EU court, raising questions about intellectual property rights in the fast-evolving AI industry and potential implications for tech firms operating across European markets.
#EU #Germany #AI #Trademarks #TechLaw #Innovation
https://www.zeit.de/news/2026-07/15/openai-verliert-im-markenstreit-vor-eu-gericht
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Bite Size Economics No.35
'Trademarks are the only really socially useful form of intellectual property rights'
After 25yrs researching IPRs I concluded while patents & copyrights inevitably privileged the interests of 'owners', trademarks offered significant (immediate) benefits to society more widely.
By helping consumers quickly assess claims around quality & origin TMs actually delivered enhanced information to the market, supporting informed choice(s).
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Reuters: Google appeals Indian ruling over its ads platform, citing consumer harm. “Google has challenged an Indian court ruling that it infringed on a company’s trademark rights by allowing rivals to use its name as an advertising keyword, arguing the decision will hurt consumers, documents reviewed by Reuters show.”
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FYI (For Your #Inspiration)
✶✶ Traditional #TradeMarks: Vintage (Script) #Logos ↝ https://are.na/dav/traditional-trademarks-vintage-script-logos -
Genericide, Japan Edition: How Japan’s Famous Names Slipped Into Common Speech
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://unseen-japan.com/japan-genericide-genericized-brand-names/
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Backstreet Boys Trademark Their Voices, Joining Taylor Swift and Others Battling AI Deepfakes
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.billboard.com/pro/backstreet-boys-trademark-their-voices/
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YouTube AI Lawsuit, Lionel Richie Trademark, Diddy Case Ruling & More Top Music Law News
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TechCrunch: Founders seize on Indian court ruling to revive criticism of Google’s ad business. “A recent Indian court ruling against Google’s keyword advertising practices has gained fresh attention after founders said competitors have long used the system to siphon off customers and force companies to pay to protect their own brands.”
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Weekend Reading from TechAptitude!
Check out Quantum Technologies – Intellectual Property Considerations
Article explores how the application of property rights in Quantum is all about implementing strategies to create an ideal balance between enabling sharing and the free flow in technical information, technology transfer, while at the same time encouraging healthy competition and innovation. https://techaptitude.substack.com/p/quantum-technologies-intellectual?r=vn8b8 #Quantum #QuantumComputing #IP #TradeMarks #QuantumStrategy #IntellectualProperty #Innovation #Competition
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Finding the Right Name
Looking for a name that isn’t being used is tedious at the least.
I have used the Dawghouse since I opened this site in 24′. It has served me well but with my site now called peaceful-threads.com in my domain name I am finding there are more than one bar and restaurant using the dawghouse dive name. That means I am breaking trademark laws using this. I now have a dilemma as to what to have as a header on my site as I don’t need any lawsuits over infringement.. I also need to find a name for my artist when I make my songs go live. I had looked at and been using ‘The Reel Rebel’ but again using the USPTO I’ve found it registered too.
Back to the drawing board. I guess that since I have peaceful-threads already registered as my domain I will have to design a header that reflects this and ties into my blog posts. That is my next project starting after this post is written today. As far as a band name I am open to any suggestions.
It’s a little sad that I have built this site around the dawghouse concept but hey, construction is my middle name here so I think I’ll zone out and repave this site once again. Will I totally abandoned my persona of ‘Ernie Dawg’, absolutely not!
This is not meant to be a rant, more like a learning curve where I need to slow down and learn to check out the legal aspects of names for commercial use.
Have a great day my friends!
https://youtu.be/fV_-a0P2L3o?si=cJ9bjz6XI-W_osnE
M1926 http://www.peaceful-threads.com
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Neil Young Trademark Lawsuit Over ‘Chrome Hearts’ Band Name Dropped by Fashion Brand
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🤖 𝐓𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐈 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤
#taylorswift #ai #trademarks #matthewmcconaughey #scarlettjohansson -
Taylor Swift Files to Trademark Her Voice and Image as AI Deepfakes Grow
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Should I trademark a name/new word if I want to make sure it can be used by anybody, to prevent it from being owned by someone who keeps it for himself? :-)
#trademarks
@piratepartyau
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The UK music collecting society is pursuing Steam, PlayStation has been toying with dynamic pricing and Crikey breakdown Palantir Technologies' Australian Defence contract.
And: Katy Perry lost a trade mark battle with an Australian fashion designer, La Trobe University appointed an AI Pro Vice-Chancellor and the Oversight Board wants Meta to do more to identify AI content.
https://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-25/
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The UDRP isn't just a similarity test. Bad faith requires strong evidence that the respondent registered the domain because of the complainant's mark. Where the disputed name is coherent and independently attractive, panels should be cautious about inferring targeting from phonetic resemblance alone, especially if the complainant's mark isn't globally famous and the respondent is outside the complainant's home market.
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It's mind-boggling that Panelist David L. Kreider accepted the Complainant’s claim that caresoft is confusingly similar to CARAHSOFT, calling it a “classic typosquatting” case and that the Telstra doctrine applied to the case.
There are 97 active businesses using “Caresoft” in their names!
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What do you think happened in this UDRP decision?
redmountain .com (purchased for $10,000, but not used yet. 1000s of businesses use Red Mountain in their names. 15 matching registered #trademarks in USPTO.)
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Engadget: Matthew McConaughey fights unauthorized AI likenesses by trademarking himself. “Matthew McConaughey filed trademark applications to prevent his likeness from being used by AI companies without permission, and the US Patent and Trademark Office has approved eight so far.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/19/engadget-matthew-mcconaughey-fights-unauthorized-ai-likenesses-by-trademarking-himself/ -
🤔 Curious if this actually has any legal basis.. #law #trademarks
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A new company wants to be called Twitter. Their representative said: "X legally abandoned the TWITTER mark, publicly declared the Twitter brand ‘dead,’ and spent substantial resources establishing a new brand identity. They said goodbye. We say hello."
Elon Musk is not happy about this. Judges will decide whether or not Elon Musk will lose on this name dispute in court:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2025/12/16/elon-musk-x-sues-startup-twitter-trademark-cancellation/87798842007/?tbref=hp
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SCOTUS has asked United Trademark Holdings for a response to the Curtin cert petition: www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?... #trademarks
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hvwhptk4oerwsuzau66ikwfy/post/3lpriyds6cc2y
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Indie video games developed on modest budgets by individuals and small teams are gaining traction in Japan for their innovative ideas and variety often absent from major studio titles. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/03/japan/low-budget-indie-games/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #videogames #copyrights #trademarks
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"Digital library app maker OverDrive has sued OpenAI in Ohio federal court, alleging that the artificial intelligence startup's Sora video-generation app violates its trademark rights in the "Sora" name.
OverDrive said in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday that OpenAI's app will cause consumer confusion with its own Sora app, which provides e-books and other digital library materials to students.
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"If immediate steps are not taken to protect children from being confused between OverDrive’s SORA app and OpenAI’s Sora app, schools have indicated that they will have no choice but to take their own steps to do so—by discontinuing their use of OverDrive’s SORA app," OverDrive said."
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Search Engine Journal: Automattic Disputes Use Of Word “Automatic” For WordPress Product. “Lawyers representing Automattic, the for-profit founded by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, sent a trademark complaint letter to WordPress developer Kevin Geary, asking him to rebrand his WordPress CSS framework, which is currently named Automatic.css, claiming that the similarity to Mullenweg’s […]
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Los Angeles Times: Cameo sues OpenAI for trademark infringement. “OpenAI, which faced a fierce blowback in Hollywood last month as images of celebrities and dead newsmakers were manipulated without consent, is now drawing more scrutiny over its practices. This week, Chicago-based tech business Cameo sued OpenAI for trademark infringement.” I was wondering about that.
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/01/los-angeles-times-cameo-sues-openai-for-trademark-infringement/
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As an intellectual property lawyer, I find it weird that IP registers (trademarks, patents, designs, etc.) are not completely open and easy to use for non-specialists.
The historical context and reasons for this are clear, but I don't think it should remain the same, given that we could make this public information more accessible to everyone.