<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;">The question implies booth the Sponsor and Group would benefit from an explicit written provision on IP,<div>both initially and perhaps after the podcast becomes \u201crich and famous\u201d and if the current creating Group</div><div>has successors or new podcasts stop and the project is abandoned.</div><div>Daniel Kegan</div><div>Kennett Square PA USA</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 14, 2024, at 3:51\u202fPM, Jessica R. Friedman via E-trademarks <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; 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; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(14, 40, 65);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 62, 100);"><span style="color: windowtext;">I represent a group that produces podcasts under a Model A fiscal sponsorship and wants to register its name. A fiscal sponsor is a nonprofit organization that provides fiduciary oversight, financial management, and other administrative services to charitable start-up operations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 62, 100);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; 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; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(14, 40, 65);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 62, 100);"><span style="color: windowtext;">Under Model A, the group being sponsored becomes part of the sponsor company; it doesn\u2019t form its own corporate entity. So, the two people who work for my client\u2019s group receive salaries on a W-2 from the sponsor entity, and the sponsor has to sign all contracts that the group wants to enter into. But the sponsor entity has no input into or right of approval over the podcast content or any other aspect of the actual podcast services.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 62, 100);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; 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; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(14, 40, 65);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 62, 100);"><span style="color: windowtext;">Who is the proper trademark applicant: the sponsor entity or the individual members of the group? It seems to me that as long as the members of the group are employees of the sponsor, the sponsor entity has to be the trademark applicant, but since the sponsor itself has nothing to do with the quality of the podcasts, this just seems wrong.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 62, 100);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; 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; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(14, 40, 65);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 62, 100);"><span style="color: windowtext;">Has anyone had experience with this situation, or does anyone else have any thoughts?<o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 62, 100);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(22, 62, 100);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="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><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 51, 102);">Jessica R. 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