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Intellectual Property

May 24, 2006

Minimizing Infringement Risk Of Prior, Unregistered Marks

Focus Column - By Michael Shimokaji and Yasuko Ogawa - Recently, a New York district court held that a prior user of a non-registered mark had priority over a subsequent user, although the subsequent user filed an intent-to-use trademark application before the prior user's filing of a trademark application in the U.S. Trademark Office.

Focus Column

By Michael Shimokaji and Yasuko Ogawa
     
      Recently, a New York district court held that a prior user of a non-registered mark had priority over a subsequent user, although the subsequent user filed an intent-to-use trademark application before the prior user's filing of a trademark application in the U.S. Trademark Office. Menashe v. V. Secret Catalogue, 409 F.Supp.2d 4...

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