[E-trademarks] Senior v. Junior Users

[Welch, John L.]

FWIW: there is a 2015 TMR article that discussed the Internet issue. (The link may not work unless you are an INTA member.)

The TTABlog<sup>(r)</sup>: Recommended Reading: LaLonde and Gilson, "Proving Ownership Online . . . And Keeping It: : The Internet's Impact on Trademark Use and Coexistence"<http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2015/01/recommended-reading-lalonde-and-gilson.html>

vol104_no6_a4.pdf<https://www.inta.org/wp-content/uploads/member-only/resources/the-trademark-reporter/vol104_no6_a4.pdf?verify=1733226093-Deb8-ZwuLUcX15LHvvgtkcOGhFA8qOd5bQM6hNOV7Cw>

As to this question, "Can the junior stop the senior from using the mark in the junior's geographic area?", you might look at this decision: The TTABlog<sup>(r)</sup>: Precedential No. 14: Junior User Awarded Concurrent Use Registration for Entire Country Except New Jersey and New York<http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2014/04/precedential-no-14-junior-user-awarded.html>


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Subject: [E-trademarks] Senior v. Junior Users

Listmates,

If a junior user is the first to file, I'm aware that the senior user can't stop the junior user from using the mark in the junior's geographic area (and area of expansion).

Can the junior stop the senior from using the mark in the junior's geographic area?

Also, I would appreciate cases in which the junior user extensively advertises or sells on the internet, and which discusses how that affects the analysis of what the junior's geographic area is.

Thank you,
Michael

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