"doge" is a very generic trademark that would be hard to enforce, even if UltraPro are successful in trademarking it.
In my eyes, it's a total waste of time and money being spent opposing a very generic trademark that can't and won't be enforced (as UltraPro have stated themselves).
My response is that firstly, "doge" is a generic trademark that UltraPro have no intent of enforcing or using maliciously; secondly I trust a large reputable company with a proven track record like UltraPro infinitely more than I do a 6 month old cryptocurrency company with an abrasive CEO, who have already taken over 750 BTC in investment from regular folks on the internet.
Moreover, the name "SOCIALADS" is too generic to trademark, the agency said.
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For example, a branded toothpaste violating the trademark; generic automobile parts that violates a design patent or a branded pharmaceutical pill bottle that violates the trademark as well as a patented, proprietary cap designs.
Back when we started out we chose a different name for the project (IPCHAIN) and soon were facing a number of copycats which ultimately led us to switch to Vaultitude, which is much less generic and fully trademark protected.
In a victory for all of us who find the idea of trying to trademark generic-sounding terms tedious — and a victory, too, for those who actually work in the world of social enterprise — Salesforce.com has announced that it has withdrawn its applications to trademark the term "social enterprise," originally filed earlier this year in the U.S., UK, Australia and Jamaica.
Of course, it's not as if generic words being trademarked is uncommon.
While the game was simply called Magic through most of playtesting, when the game had to be officially named a lawyer informed them that Magic was too generic to be trademarked.
Importantly, Part VI also forbids prosecutions where the only issue is that a medicine is generic or violates trademarks, and this is to ensure that the Model Law remains a tool for protecting public health and is not turned into a cudgel for enforcing intellectual property (Box 2).
