Today I notice that all 3 of the Hyperion's euipo filings now read "claimed".
Any additional info and/or corrections to what I have posted are welcome.
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When you register a trademark in one jurisdiction you can claim priority in other jurisdictions based on the date of filing of your original application. If granted it means that your subsequent applications will be considered to be filed at the same date as the original one. That’s all.
Ben Hermans tactics is to first register in a small jurisdiction that nobody really cares about (an EU registration should overtrump) in which it is much quicker and easier to get a trademark registered, and use “priority claim” to try to get a more favorable date in the EU process.
With this in mind, it is very peculiar how Ben Hermans managed to get an application for the “Workbench” trademark in just a few days before Cloanto. Cloanto filed that trademark in the US, was it 2005? Or 2006? And it has been registered since at least 2011, and nobody cared. Nobody did anything. But when Cloanto filed to expand this trademark (not a new registration per se) to EU, then Ben Hermans had filed a Benelux application (with priority claim) with almost slightest possible time margin ahead of Cloanto, during christmas/new years holiday seasons! And this was days before any other “trademark happenings” took place (it was the first stone thrown). Very peculiar indeed. Almost as if someone could predict the future! Or knew someone in the small, familiar Benelux bureaucracy to call in a favor from to backdate the application just a couple of days...
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Just a brief review of some important dates coming up the week after Amiga32:
On or about November 4, 2017, for Hyperion's filings for trademarks in the U.S. (uspto), which include "AmigaOS", "AmigaOne", and the "Image Trademark (Boing Ball):
Quote:
STRICT DEADLINE TO RESPOND TO THIS LETTER TO AVOID ABANDONMENT OF APPLICANT’S TRADEMARK APPLICATION, THE USPTO MUST RECEIVE APPLICANT’S COMPLETE RESPONSE TO THIS LETTER WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF THE ISSUE/MAILING DATE BELOW. A RESPONSE TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE TRADEMARK ELECTRONIC APPLICATION SYSTEM (TEAS) MUST BE RECEIVED BEFORE MIDNIGHT EASTERN TIME OF THE LAST DAY OF THE RESPONSE PERIOD.
ISSUE/MAILING DATE: 5/4/2017
Fixed date of November 5, 2017: Itec LLC deadline to file objection to Cloanto's U.S. (uspto) filing for "Amiga"
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