{"id":43,"date":"2015-03-02T21:16:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T02:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2015-03-03T09:26:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T14:26:57","slug":"actually-providing-services-key-to-service-mark-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Actually Providing Services Key to Service Mark Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Couture v. Playdom, Inc.<\/em>, [2014-1480] (Fed. Cir. March 2, 2015), the Federal Circuit affirmed the cancellation of Couture&#8217;s federal registration on PLAYDOM because while on the May 30, 2008. filing date Couture\u00a0had <em>advertised<\/em> the services, he did not actually perform the services until 2010 long after the Registration issued on January 13, 2009.\u00a0 Although the Federal Circuit had not previously addressed the question, it found that &#8220;[o]n its face, the statute is clear.&#8221;\u00a0 15 U.S.C. \u00a7 1051(a)(1) required use in commerce, and 15 U.S.C. \u00a71127 defined use as rendering the services in commerce.\u00a0 The Federal Circuit noted that the Second, Fourth, and Eighth\u00a0have also indicated that actually performing the services, as opposed to merely advertising them, is required for a use-based service mark application.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Couture v. Playdom, Inc., [2014-1480] (Fed. Cir. March 2, 2015), the Federal Circuit affirmed the cancellation of Couture&#8217;s federal registration on PLAYDOM because while on the May 30, 2008. filing date Couture\u00a0had advertised the services, he did not actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=43\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}