<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Recently a few quasi-celebrity attorneys were found liable for promoting unsupportable legal theories.<div>If the facts were clear, then the attorneys might be liable (for something by some tribunal) if a reasonable</div><div>attorney with reasonable due diligence would not make black-letter claims.<br><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 9, 2023, at 4:23 PM, Janice Housey via E-trademarks <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:</div><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">All—</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I was recently presented with an interesting hypothetical situation:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Let’s party A’s trademark is XYZ GROUP (i.e., a trademark particularly associated with a particular group/organization/institution-- and the mark is registered th), a splinter group forms and claims that they are the “real” XYZ GROUP and starts using XYZ GROUP in various ways. (Yes—party A is addressing these infringements.) In the meantime, attorneys representing the splinter group sends correspondence to third parties identifying themselves as “Attorneys for XYZ GROUP.”</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Are the splinter group’s attorneys potentially liable for trademark infringement as well? 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