Sentence examples for using the same trademark from inspiring English sources
"No one is stopping them from advertising themselves that way, or signing contracts that way or engaging in any activity, except that stopping someone else from using the same trademark".
If someone else has registered your trademark, they can prevent you from using the same and also gain all the benefits of your goodwill that your trademark has obtained over many years.
The decision did not prevent the band from using the name, but trademark status can be valuable in preventing others from using the same or similar name in marketing.
Hook, who quit New Order in 2007, is currently involved in a trademark dispute with the rest of the group, arguing they cannot continue to play using the same band name.
Ownership of a trademark confers upon the property holder the right to use a particular mark or symbol and the right to exclude others from using the same (or similar) mark or symbol.
However, the company claims that Shiseido learned of Parfum Xan Kim's intentions to distribute Merge in Japan and tried to block those plans by filing for use of the same trademark name in October 1999.
A concurrent use registration, in United States trademark law, is a federal trademark registration of the same trademark to two or more unrelated parties, with each party having a registration limited to a distinct geographic area.
Twitpic filed for the same trademark only in October of 2009.
This category of marks is considered weak; there's a good chance other people could independently use the same mark, which would make the trademark protection difficult to enforce.
It is possible, for example, to enter into a trademark coexistence agreement, allowing both parties to use the same word.
