Stressballs.com: $20k sale led to rebranding, new trademark application

Posted by DomainGang on January 9, 2022, at 5:24 pm

Bluetrack, Inc., operators of Stressballs.com, have filed for the registration of the matching trademark, STRESSBALLS.COM. The mark was applied for the following products and services: Custom imprinting of keychains, yoyos, foam objects, squisable objects, mugs; Customized printing of company names and logos for promotional and advertising purposes on the goods of others; Design printing for […]

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BuildingSigns.com owner applies for matching trademark registration

Posted by DomainGang on January 7, 2022, at 11:40 am

NY-based Alice Wonder LLC have applied for the registration of the mark BUILDINGSIGNS.COM with the USPTO. The application lists the following products and services as related to the mark: Non-luminous and non-mechanical metal signs The trademark application cites date of first use in commerce January 15, 2016. It also lists first use of the mark […]

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LOVD.com trademark registration application indicates #domain was sold

Posted by DomainGang on January 5, 2022, at 9:52 am

The operators of New York-based Chums Referral, Inc. have applied for the registration of the mark LOVD.COM with the USPTO. The application lists the following products and services as related to the mark: Downloadable and recorded software for users to advertise, sell, and buy secondhand goods Providing an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of […]

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Bibliography.com owner applies for trademark registration

Posted by DomainGang on January 3, 2022, at 10:22 am

Florida-based LoveToKnow Corporation has applied for the registration of the mark BIBLIOGRAPHY.COM with the USPTO. The application lists the following products and services as related to the mark: Providing a website featuring a citation generator The trademark application cites date of first use January 2019 and includes a signed statement by the company’s CEO about […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Bibliography, Bibliography.com, Domainers, Domains, USPTO, trademarks

The Olympic Committee lost #UDRP match on Soccerstore.cc

Posted by DomainGang on December 30, 2021, at 9:50 am

The Olympic mark is world famous and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is very protective of its brand and heritage. That being said, the UDRP it filed against the domain Soccerstore.cc was mostly based on the claim that soccer is the most popular Olympic sport: “The disputed domain name is confusingly similar to the Complainant’s […]

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GoodMorning.com owner applies for trademark registration two years after brand change

Posted by DomainGang on December 28, 2021, at 11:11 am

GoodMorning.com is a Canadian eCommerce mattress and sleep product company, co-founded in 2009 by siblings Sam Prochazka, Andy Prochazka, and Helenka Prochazka under the name Novosbed. In 2019, Novosbed changed its name to GoodMorning.com and launched a new website that houses its mattress product line and sleep accessories. The company applied for the registration of […]

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Scholarships.com owner applies for trademark registration

Posted by DomainGang on December 27, 2021, at 1:28 pm

Illinois-based Scholarships.com LLC has applied for the registration of the matching mark SCHOLARSHIPS.COM with the USPTO. The application lists the following products and services as related to the mark: Displaying advertisements for others; On-line advertising and marketing services; Placing advertisements for others; Providing space at a web site for the advertisement of the goods and […]

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Candy.com: Former Domain King #domain name applies for trademark registration

Posted by DomainGang on December 23, 2021, at 9:47 am

The Domain King, Rick Schwartz, sold the domain Candy.com for $3,000,000 dollars plus additional benefits in 2009. The well-documented sale propelled candy sales for the buyer for more than a decade, thus providing handsome royalties to Rick Schwartz. Fast forward in 2021, Saw.com co-brokered the domain on behalf of the buyers, while the seller most […]

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Thousands of Chinese brands, trademarks, and domains are fraudulent

Posted by DomainGang on December 15, 2021, at 10:17 am

The United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) sanctioned a Chinese trademark agency by terminating over 15,000 US trademark cases for defrauding the USPTO. Yusha Zhang and Shenzhen Huanyee Intellectual Property Co., Ltd. have been involved in filing submissions for more than 15,000 trademarks; violations included the unauthorized practice of law, providing false domicile information […]

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HudsonFurniture.com: Second UDRP in 8 years flips the coin on the #domain

Posted by DomainGang on December 14, 2021, at 12:03 pm

Hudson’s Furniture Showroom, Inc. won the UDRP for the domain HudsonFurniture.com in 2013, usurping it from its previous owner who had acquired it in 2005 for $2,150 dollars. In that UDRP, the Respondent did not respond and the domain was transferred to the Complainant. Fast forward to 2021, Hudson’s Furniture Showroom, Inc. filed a UDRP […]

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NavyChief.com has applied for #trademark registration at the USPTO

Posted by DomainGang on December 7, 2021, at 9:13 am

Maryland based company NavalTees LLC, operators of the domain NavyChief.com, have applied for the registration of the mark NAVYCHIEF.COM with the USPTO. The mark consists of standard characters, without claim to any particular font style, size, or color. The words “Navy” and “Chief” combined to read as one word “NavyChief” and followed by a “.com” […]

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Onlycom: Missing a dot, “COM” trademark applications surge at the #USPTO

Posted by DomainGang on December 3, 2021, at 10:53 am

Several recent trademark applications at the USPTO are seeking the registration of marks that end in “COM” as a three letter suffix matching the TLD. But there is no dot before the “COM” part. What do they have in common? Most of them are applications by Chinese entities, for products that seek to belong under […]

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