Last week, the Cleveland Indians baseball team finally changed their name. Problem is, that name has been used for almost a decade by a roller derby team and they even own the domain clevelandguardians.com. Oops. From Yahoo! Sports:
U.S. trademark law generally awards trademarks based on “first-to-use,” rather than “first-to-file.”
Source: https://boingboing.net/2021/08/03/the-cleveland-indians-new-name-the-cleveland-guardians-already-belongs-to-a-roller-derby-team-so-does-the-com.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-cleveland-indians-new-name-the-cleveland-guardians-already-belongs-to-a-roller-derby-team-so-does-the-com
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