Showing posts with label actual use in commerce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label actual use in commerce. Show all posts

Monday, June 8, 2020

Trump's Space Force Already Lost Its First Battle; The Hollywood Reporter, June 5, 2020

Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter; Trump's Space Force Already Lost Its First Battle


"Although the United States operates on what's called a "first-to-use" trademark registration system, where priority is based on actual use in commerce rather than who gets to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office first, many other countries operate on a "first-to-file" basis. Records show that Netflix was submitting applications for "Space Force" around the world as early as January 2019. In other words, the Department of Defense was caught sleeping."