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Key-Systems sued over brand protection trademark
Kevin Murphy,
January 10, 2012, 15:22:28 (UTC),
Domain Registrars
Israeli domain name registrar Domain The Net Technologies has filed a preemptive lawsuit against German competitor Key-Systems over their respective brand management trademarks.
According to the complaint, Domain The Net filed for a US trademark on the term “BrandShield”, which it uses to market brand protection services at brandshield.com.
Key-Systems, which runs a similar service called BrandShelter, filed an opposition to Domain The Net’s trademark application last October, due to the alleged potential for confusion.
Anticipating a possible lawsuit, Domain The Net has therefore sued first, asking the District Court in Virginia to declare that BrandShield does not infringe the BrandShelter trademark.
The complaint lists several dozen live brand+word trademarks to demonstrate that no one company should have exclusive rights to the word “brand”.
You can view the complaint, which was filed yesterday, in PDF format here.
(Hat tip: @GeorgeKirikos)
I have the impression a never heard of company in Israel wants to get attention …
What about a move to file a opposition against “apple”? Isn`it a shame that they ask the exclusive rigth to apples (also – probably – from horses or from Israel trees?). 🙂