AI startup's confusion prosecution, suspected of infringing trademarks
The confusion of the search product driven by the venture capital of venture capital was found in the federal court due to the suspected violation of the trademark of another company.
In the appeal filed by the courts in North California on Thursday, a lawyer on behalf of a lawyer named “Perplexity Solution Solution” accused him of using the “Perplexity” brand to violate its trademark rights.
The complaint said that the solution of the CLLEXITY solution was a company established in Pleano, Texas, in 2017. In October 2021, the company applied for the US Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) in the US Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) Register to confuse trademarks.
Confused solutions Solutions mainly sell human resources and workplace collaboration software, including a unified instrument board for human resource analysis and video conference tools called Perplexity Meet. The company obtained trademark registration before November 2022, and began to promote products on its website, perplexityonline.com, which is a field of confusion solutions in the area registered in 2021.
The confusion and confusion of the solution did not respond at the time of issuance. TechCrunch will update the article if either party comments.
The scrifting company claimed that the confusion of AI startups began to violate trademark around August 2022 to promote its AI -driven search engine. The previous month to July 2022-Puzzle registered the confusion of the domain.
The complaint wrote: “Currently located in the infringement domain name (confusing) website is characterized by confusion (trademark),” the complaint wrote: “(and) infringement products and services and confusion (resolved solutions) are very Similar and attract similar customer bases. “
The puzzle space launched by San Francisco's AI startup in October for corporate customers was a hub with custom AI assistant, and connected a third -party platform, application and file system.
The complaint stated that confusion has passed the “saturated market” of its infringement brand, including marketing on various social media accounts. According to the complaint, the AI startup refused to buy a confused trademark when purchasing in September 2023. Instead, he chose to submit his own trademark with USPTO. The trademark is still under trial.
According to the complaint, the lawyer who did not comply with the “Confusion Solution” stopped and stopped letter, and had not yet withdrawn its unsatisfactory trademark application, although he worked hard to oppose the application before the USPTO trial and appeal committee.
Lawyers who solve the solution solution said that the use of trademarks in confusion may be chaotic.
The complaint: “In fact, according to information and beliefs, consumers have been confused.” “For example, in many cases, social media users have labeled the confusion in the posts about the defendant's infringing goods and services.”
The complaint stated that the confusing behavior violated the law, including the Lannum Act, the United States Federal Law, which stipulated the competition between trademarks and unfairness. In other forms of legal relief, the confusion of solutions is to try to prohibit the use of its trademark and trademark “Perplexity AI”, pay damage compensation, and transfer all ownership of the field of confused brands.
This is the latest headache of the court. It is currently the “content KleptoCracy” mentioned by the news group's Dow Jones and the Ny Post (NY POST). Many other news websites have expressed their concerns that they are concerned about their contents. Just in October last year, the New York Times was sent to the startup's stop and termination letter.