trademark-quest
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Hi everyone --
I'm setting up a luxury leather shoes company for women and I have a surname in mind that I'd like to use in conjunction with a first name but not sure if I'm allowed to do so because it was also the surname of a very popular designer from the 50s. Some company already holds the trademark for this surname (on its own, no first name) both here in the US and in Europe (though only for perfume in the US). Even though they hold the trademarks for all categories in Europe, the company does not engage in apparel and leather anymore, they only sell perfume.
I have a couple of examples of designers with the same surname but different first name (e.g. Vera Wang and Alexander Wang, Anne Klein and Calvin Klein). But these surnames are quite popular, whereas in my case there are around 1,005 individuals with that last name in the US (ranks 22,501 for all surnames) and 5,886 people in the UK (ranks 1,745th). Slightly more popular in the UK as it is an old British surname.
-- Thank you!
I'm setting up a luxury leather shoes company for women and I have a surname in mind that I'd like to use in conjunction with a first name but not sure if I'm allowed to do so because it was also the surname of a very popular designer from the 50s. Some company already holds the trademark for this surname (on its own, no first name) both here in the US and in Europe (though only for perfume in the US). Even though they hold the trademarks for all categories in Europe, the company does not engage in apparel and leather anymore, they only sell perfume.
I have a couple of examples of designers with the same surname but different first name (e.g. Vera Wang and Alexander Wang, Anne Klein and Calvin Klein). But these surnames are quite popular, whereas in my case there are around 1,005 individuals with that last name in the US (ranks 22,501 for all surnames) and 5,886 people in the UK (ranks 1,745th). Slightly more popular in the UK as it is an old British surname.
-- Thank you!
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