Nike Inc has submitted a trademark application for the word ‘cryptokicks’, signalling it may be gearing up to launch its own digital currency and a host of cryptocurrency related products. The application, filed on April, 19, outlines how the company‘s proposed digital currency could be used by an online community.
Word Mark CRYPTOKICKS
Serial Number 88394295
Filing Date April 19, 2019
Current Basis 1B
Owner (APPLICANT) Nike, Inc. CORPORATION OREGON One Bowerman Drive Beaverton OREGON 97005
TTAB Continues to Rule on Genericness Wednesday, April 24, 2019In In re Hikari Sales USA, Inc., the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) issued a second precedential decision involving genericness, this year, just two days after issuing its first one. In doing so, the TTAB sent a strong message to brand owners hoping to obtain exclusive rights in highly descriptive or otherwise common terms.
Megastar pastry chef Christina Tosi and her team at Milk Bar have filed a complaint alleging that a Chicago dessert bar and restaurant has infringed their name and logo. The federal complaint claimed the owners of JoJo’s Milk Bar, which opened in February in River North, “deliberately” and “willfully” confused customers and the media into thinking the Chicago bar was associated with Tosi’s.
While comparing products and services in advertising campaigns is perfectly legal when done correctly, companies and marketers should work closely with their legal counsel to review any proposed ad campaign that specifically calls out a competitor or a competing product.
U.K. supermarket no longer legally trumps a literal country Iceland Foods, which operates Iceland supermarkets in the U.K., no longer holds the EU trademark on the word “Iceland,” which is, of course, a sovereign country. The EU Intellectual Property Organisation granted the food company said trademark back in 2014, but that trademark is now invalidated after the supermarket tried to stop the country from mentioning itself in a slogan, prompting the country to sue.