Hi there,
I'm really hoping someone can help me,
Our UK company owns a fictional character that was sold to a US firm without our consent. The US publisher kept the characters visual image but changed the name, they subsequently went into liquidation, at the liquidation sale another US firm bought the copyright via an illegal assignation.
Since then the new buyer has a live US trademark application (which is being opposed) which is essentially being applied to a copyrighted character that they don't own.
I guess my question is this,
What happens if someone register's a trademark to a character (that's not in the US public domain) without the worldwide copyright owners consent?
Many thanks in advance.
Janis x
I'm really hoping someone can help me,
Our UK company owns a fictional character that was sold to a US firm without our consent. The US publisher kept the characters visual image but changed the name, they subsequently went into liquidation, at the liquidation sale another US firm bought the copyright via an illegal assignation.
Since then the new buyer has a live US trademark application (which is being opposed) which is essentially being applied to a copyrighted character that they don't own.
I guess my question is this,
What happens if someone register's a trademark to a character (that's not in the US public domain) without the worldwide copyright owners consent?
Many thanks in advance.
Janis x