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Episode: S13 E42 The McSleep Inn case Enforcing a trademark outside of your direct competitors with Wayne Carroll
Description: S13 E42 The McSleep Inn case Enforcing a trademark outside of your direct competitors. In season 13, episode 15, I talked about how I found three companies all using the same trademarks in three different product categories, a moving company, an automotive parts company, and an electric cooperative selling electricity.
Clients often come to me when they see a company using a name similar to theirs and want to know if it is trademark infringement.
In this episode I discuss the 8 trademark infringement factors and how they played out in a case between McDonalds and Quality Inns (1...