Perplexity, a startup of venture support to build search products equipped with AI, was sued by the Federal Court to violate the trademark of another company.
In a complaint submitted to the US District Court in the northern California state on Thursday, a lawyer represented by a company called PRPLEXITY SOLVED SOLUTIONS accused him of violating its trademark rights using a brand. I blame it.
According to complaints, Perprexity Solutions Solutions, a company -based company established in 2017, was applied in October 2021 to register a trademark confused by the US Patent and Trading Agency (USPTO). 。
Perplexity Solved Solutions mainly sells HR and workplace collaboration software, such as unified dashboards for HR analysis and video conference tools called Perplexity Meet. The company has secured a trademark registration by November 2022, and has launched a product on Perprexityonline.com, a confused domain registered by a confused solution in 2021, Perplexityonline.com.
The solution to the solution to the puzzle and puzzle did not respond like the news time. TechCrunch updates the article when any of the parties comment.
Texas companies argue that the confusion of AI's startups has begun to promote search engines with AI in August 2022 in a trademark of “inside and outside”. Former month -July 2022 -Perplexity registered domain perPlexity.ai, but claims that complaints are infringement.
“” [Perplexity] The website currently in the infringement domain name is confused [trademark]The complaint is written as “”.[and] The infringement products and services are very similar to those provided by confusion. [Solved Solutions] Appeal to a similar customer base. For example, confusing [Solved Solutions’] Both “Perplayxity Meet” and the defendant's “PRPLEXITY Space” are both software platforms that promote communication and collaboration between companies and other organizations. “
The PERPLEXITY space, which is based in San Francisco's AI Startup, for enterprise customers in October, is a hub with AI assistants and connectors that can be customized to third -party platforms, apps, and file systems.
The complaint claims that confusion is infringed by branding that it has “saturated the market.” AI's startup refused to purchase PERPLEXITY trademarks in September 2023 in September 2023, and chose to submit a unique trademark to USPTO in September 2023.
According to complaints, the confusion is not complied with the stops and abolition of the Perplexity Solutions lawyer, but with the withdrawal of the tranquaries being paid despite the efforts to oppose the application before the USPTO trial and the appeal committee. I haven't done it.
A lawyer in a solved solution has stated that the use of a confused trademark is likely to wing the confusion.
“In fact, consumers are already confused based on information and beliefs,” read the complaint. “For example, in some cases, social media users are” tagged “to posts on defendant infringement products and services. “
The complaint claims that Perplexity's actions violate the Lanham Law, that is, the laws, including the US Federal Law, which regulates trademarks and unfair competition. Among the legal relief in other forms, the confused solution is trying to hinder the use of trademarks.
This is a litigation submitted by News Corporation and New York for what the plaintiff is called “Content Cleptor Classie” and the latest court headache for confusion. Many other news sites have expressed concern that confusion will duplicate content closely. Last October, the New York Times sent a letter to the startup and abolished.
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