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344: 323: 643: 622: 653: 433: 412: 290: 233: 748: 727: 758: 853: 828: 203: 953:. But that was in 1923, far too late to have been the first registration under a constitutional act (which was enacted in 1881). The mark is rather elderly, but is in no way in the running to be "oldest" under any definition. The "Tarzan" text now resides in the "Comparison with patents, designs and copyright" section, but it looks like when it was moved out, the "three" was not updated to "two"; GrindtXX's edit today fixes that. 538: 517: 443: 281: 548: 1068:
of products or services" (italics are mine). The particular polo shirt has a Ralph Lauren (RL) logo on it (registered to a US corporation), but it had been made in Vietnam on a no-name factory that probably simply has a contract with RL to produce these shirts. The "Usage" section gets it right: "A
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The text currently claims: “A trademark owner doesn't need to take enforcement action against all infringement if it can be shown that the owner perceived the infringement to be minor and inconsequential.” Implicitly, this seems to implies that if the infringement is not minor, then the trademark
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Good edit; but I would be unsurprised if a third claim had been deleted somewhere along the way. Currently we have 1) the oldest registration, but under an act later found to be invalid as unconstitutional (thereby calling its legitimacy as a registration into question); and 2) the oldest
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explains why the term "badge of origin" is so confusing because of how registered marks can be transferred or licensed in certain ways so that a mark may no longer literally identify the holder of the mark as the actual origin of the goods.
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The first paragraph of the "Fundamental concepts" declare that the trademarks indicates the origin of the goods. This was never correct, for example, when I buy a shirt with a polo player logo on it, it has not been made
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registration still in use today. I would expect there to have been an entry for the first registration under a constitutional act, regardless of whether it is still in use. I bet it was there and removed some time ago.
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of a particular product or service". Consumer brand owner in the modern world rarely has anything in common with the actual manufacturer.
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No, you're clearly wrong on that point. There are sources on this but I don't have half an hour to prepare full citations right now.
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owner is under obligation to sue the infringing party. Is that right? I find this strange. I have added a “citation needed” tag.
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The site www.trademarkbob.ai is an online trademark search tool like the others mentioned on the Trademark page (
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I would have lost that bet. The "third claim" was the Edgar Rice Burroughs registration of his "Tarzan" mark:
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Currently says: “United States: there are at least three claims:” But only 2 are cited (Averill and Samson).
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Knowledge isn't a link directory, this isn't a place to add links or mentions of your search tool.
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Of course, now I'm wondering what the first registration under a constitutional act was.
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Adding Trademark Bob AI to the list of available online trademark search tools
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stresses that identity of origin is at the core of European trademark law.
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the said corporation somewhere in East Asia. There are many
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somewhere in the US; it was most likely manufactured
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