trademark – Indian Pro Wrestling Base / Your Daily Source to Wrestling News Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:47:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2015/08/logo-sport-150x90.png trademark – Indian Pro Wrestling Base / 32 32 The Young Bucks Mock WWE’s Cease & Desist Letter /the-young-bucks-mock-wwes-cease-desist-letter/ Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:47:00 +0000 /the-young-bucks-mock-wwes-cease-desist-letter/

As previously reported, WWE has had enough with The Young Bucks ripping off the “Too Sweet” hand gesture that they own the trademark to and sent the tag team a cease and desist letter. Additionally, WWE wants them to sign a document saying that they will no longer use the hang gesture moving forward.

Well, this didn’t go over very well with The Young Bucks. As we mentioned yesterday on the site, they took to Twitter and expressed their frustrations over the whole ordeal and now it looks like they aren’t letting off the topic.

The Young Bucks have now decided to mock WWE’s attempt to stop them from using the hand gesture and are now selling t-shirts that read: “Cease and Desist TOO SW#%T!”

You can see the shirt below and link to purchase it:

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]]> GFW’s Attempts to Trademark “BROKEN” Gimmick Refused /gfws-attempts-to-trademark-broken-gimmick-refused/ Sun, 30 Jul 2017 17:19:00 +0000 /gfws-attempts-to-trademark-broken-gimmick-refused/

PWInsider reports that all four Broken Universe-related trademarks that were filed by Global Force Wrestling have be given an initial refusal by the United States Patent & Trademark Office for a variety of reasons.

Matt Hardy filed for the “Broken Matt Hardy” trademark first, which the United States Patent & Trademark Office could see as confusing similar. Global Force Wrestling will need to prove there is no conflict between the two and will also need to indicate whether “Broken Matt” refers to a living person. Matt will have to sign off on it if it does.

“Brother Nero” was refused because GFW failed to indicate whether or not it was to identify a living person. They will need the consent of Jeff Hardy if it does.

“Broken Brilliance” was refused because Global Force Wrestling failed to specify whether or not the term has any significance in professional wrestling or if it is just a “term of art” in the wrestling business.

“Vanguard1” was refused because it is confusingly similar to a non wrestling-related trademark.

It was also noted that all four trademarks were also refused because it was ruled that the wordings used for identification and classification of goods and services in the initial filing were too broad, thus the USPTO ruled those filings needed additional clarification.

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]]> Reason Billy Gunn Can Still Use His Name Outside of WWE /reason-billy-gunn-can-still-use-his-name-outside-of-wwe/ Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:00:17 +0000 /reason-billy-gunn-can-still-use-his-name-outside-of-wwe/ Many of you have noticed that Billy Gunn has been using his WWE name outside of the company and are wondering how he’s getting away with that.

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that he is now allowed to use the name “Billy Gunn” because WWE did not continue the trademark. When they let it go, he trademarked it himself and he now owns the rights to the name worldwide.

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Many of you have noticed that Billy Gunn has been using his WWE name outside of the company and are wondering how he’s getting away with that.

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that he is now allowed to use the name “Billy Gunn” because WWE did not continue the trademark. When they let it go, he trademarked it himself and he now owns the rights to the name worldwide.

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