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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: FAIL Issue #122 February 9, 2009 by Jim Harper Government bureaucracies aren't supposed to help big businesses hound their small competitors. But right now a mistake by the Patent and Trademark Office and some aggressive lawyering by the Nordstrom retail ...
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Nordstrom is Using a U.S. PTO Error to Throw a Small Competitor Under the Bus - and What You Can Do About It
Technology Liberation Front —
... is an organic yoga and lifestyle clothing business that Nordstrom is trying to force off of a trademark - or out of business. It’s owned by two businesswomen in Colorado who have done everything right to get a trademark, but now may have tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills to defend it. The short article is called U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: FAIL. ...
How Nordstrom's And The USPTO Have Destroyed One Small Business
Techdirt —
Jim Harper has the story of how the combination of a screwup at the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) and a bunch of overly aggressive lawyers at Nordstrom's have made life incredibly difficult for a small business that has done everything right. That business, an "organic" lifestyle clothing company, filed for a trademark on those clothes using their company name: Beckons. After this small business filed for the trademark, but before that information was published, the big department store Nordstrom's filed for a trademark on the word "Beckon" for ...
PTO Error/Trademark Abuse Update
Cato @ Liberty —
... Two weeks ago, I published a TechKnowledge article telling the story of how a mistake at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and some sharp lawyering had put a small business on the ropes. The Nordstrom retail chain appeared poised to use the PTO’s processes to grind under an organic yoga and lifestyle clothing business called ...
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