Steal a Trademark question?
Okay, so pretty much the most of this huge company/site’s trademarks are now dead/abandoned according to the registry.
They have 200+ million users, and are a HUGE site worldwide…so their name is valuable to them.
Would I be able to hire a patent/trademark lawyer, and ’steal’ these from them like a domain, since they expired? Then would I be able to sue the company for tons of money for continuing to use them?
I’m just curious how this would work legally.
It seems practical, and legal.
Their comp nay name expired last year, and most of their other 100 trademarked words just expired n January. Non have been re-registered yet.
When I said this site, I’m not talking about Yahoo XD
I’m talking about another site that was sold a while back for half a billion dollars. lol
I’m not actually going to do this. I’m just curious how it would work out if I did.
I actually do own a very similar site, which I could use to cover up my reason for the trademark?
Then I could be exploitative later ^_^
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No, because the company still has a common law trademark by continuously using the name to distinguish their product or service. The US Patent and Trademark Office would not accept your application, because your mark would not be unique and the registration would also be premised on an attempt to deceive.
I think you’re being more than a little fraudulent; the law is unlikely to support a clearly exploitative and selfish act as you propose.