Trouble, supported by building AI search products, were sued in the Federal Court for alleged violation of a trademark of one other company.
IN A grievance lodged on Thursday In the American District Court for the northern California district, lawyers representing the company called embarrassment solutions accuse embarrassment of violation of trademarks by means of the “embarrassment” brand.
Embarrassment solved solutions, the company Plano in Texas founded in 2017, used for registration A trademark of embarrassment According to the grievance with the American Patent Office and trademark (PEPTO) in October 2021.
The solutions of embarrassed are mainly sold by HR cooperation software and in the workplace, including a unified navigation desktop for HR analytics and a video conference tool called Cedlexity Meet. The company secured the registration of trademarks until November 2022 and began promoting products on its website, cedlexityonline.com, a domain that the embarrassed solutions were solved in 2021.
Embarrassment and advice for embarrassment solved solutions have not reacted since the press. TechCrunch will update the article if one of the parties comments.
The company from Texas claims that the embarrassment of the startup AI began to violate its trademark “in August 2022 or about” to advertise a search engine powered by artificial intelligence. Early month – July 2022 – embarrassment registered the embarrassment of the domain.
” [Perplexity] A site currently under the name of the infringement domain [trademark]- we read in the complaint – “[and] Agricultural goods and services are highly just like those offered by embarrassment [Solved Solutions] and check with a similar customer base. For example, embarrassment [Solved Solutions’] “Crossing embarrassment” and “embarrassment” are software platforms that facilitate communication and cooperation between colleagues in corporations and other organizations. “
The distress of embarrassment, which AI start in San Francisco launched for corporate clients In October, they are concentrs with adapted AI assistant and platform connectors, applications and file systems.
The grievance claims that embarrassment “saturated the market” with its brand violating the law, including marketing on various social media accounts. The startup AI refused to purchase a trademark in September 2023, when it is offered, in accordance with the grievance, and as a substitute decided to undergo his own trademark with Piegto, which is still ongoing.
According to the grievance, embarrassment was not consistent with the letter of cessation and resignation from embarrassment solved by the adviser of solutions and didn’t withdraw from his expectant application for a trademark – despite the efforts to oppose the application before the trial and the Appeal of the Powero.
Advocates of embarrassment Solved solutions say that the use of her trademark by embarrassing probably firmly firmly.
“In fact, based on information and beliefs, consumers were already confused,” we read in the grievance. “For example, many times social media users have” marked “embarrassment in their posts about goods and services violating the defendant’s law.”
The grievance claims that maintaining embarrassment violates legal provisions, including the Lanham Act – the Federal Act of the USA, which regulates trademarks and unfair competition. Among other forms of legal relief, embarrassment solved solutions strives to embarrass with his trademark, in addition to the trademark of “and embarrassment”, pay compensation and ownership of the transfer of all domains that include the embarrassment of branding.
This is the latest headache in the matter of embarrassment, which is currently fighting the lawsuit filed by Dow Jones of News Corp and NY Post about what the plaintiffs describe as “content of content”. Many other messages have messages He expressed his fears This embarrassment strictly repeats their content – in October last 12 months, The New York Times sent Startup stop the letter and resignation.