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Weekly Trademark Updates

This week’s trademark updates are as follows –   Trademark Lawsuit filed against HGTV’s “Ugliest House in America.” A lawsuit has been filed by HomeVestors of America, Inc., against Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. for infringement of the former’s trademark “The Ugliest House of the Year”. The HGTV show's treatment of homeowners is not representative of how HomeVestors franchisees engage with clients, although the show's title is remarkably similar to HomeVestors' annual "Ugliest House of the Year" contest. CoorsTek Defeats CeramTec in Battle to…

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Weekly Trademark Updates

This week's trademark updates are as follows -   Ninety-One v. Ninety-Nine Bicycles – Trademark Infringement Lawsuit The proprietor of the mark ‘Ninety-One Bicycles’ initiated a trademark infringement suit against the defendant, to restrain them from manufacturing and selling bicycles under the mark ‘Ninety-Nine Bicycles’, which was deceptively similar to their mark. The mark ‘Ninety-Nine Bicycles’ was only recently adopted by the defendants, prior to which they were using mark such as ‘SACHIN BIKES’, ‘SACHIN CROCS’, etc. Alphavector India Private Limited, the…

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