it's more like this: - They started as small firm in France, registered there the trademark Deepki, …
it's more like this: - They started as small firm in France, registered there the trademark Deepki, unrelated to software. - I created Deepkit around 2018, trademarked in US and EU with software category. - They raised substantial amount of money around 2022 $150M - Board/Shareholders likely decided that the brand is important - They tried to register the US brand under software category. The USPTO declined automatically because of "likelihood of confusion" - They reached out to me wanting a "Consent and Coexistence Agreement", I told them not for free, to which they never responded with an offer. - They tried to register in EU later, which I tried to block under the same "likelihood of confusion" ground. - They started fighting with legal terms to get my brand deleted. - They succeeded. It's not necessarily only their fault that the trademark is gone now. As I just learned, the EU requires very strict rules of proving you have legit users. I couldn't convince them. Maybe due to skill issues, missing data, or technicalities. …
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