{"id":7130,"date":"2019-06-13T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=7130"},"modified":"2019-06-09T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T13:01:26","slug":"u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-trademark-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-trademark-case\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Trademark Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guitar Center sells musical instruments. It created a new brand of woodwind and brass instruments produced by Eastman<\/a> known as \u201cVentus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barrington owns the trademark \u201cVento,\u201d which is used in relation to instruments it sells.\u00a0 Barrington began using its mark in commerce in 2009 and achieved gross sales just under $700,000. Barrington filed for registration of its \u201cVento\u201d mark in January 2010. In March 2011, Guitar Center began selling instruments using the \u201cVentus\u201d mark, with gross sales totaling about $5 million.<\/p>\n

Barrington filed suit against Eastman, Music & Arts, Guitar Center and Woodwind.<\/p>\n

Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guitar Center sells musical instruments. It created a new brand of woodwind and brass instruments produced by Eastman known as \u201cVentus.\u201d Barrington owns the trademark \u201cVento,\u201d which is used in relation to instruments it sells.\u00a0 Barrington began using its mark in commerce in 2009 and achieved gross sales just under $700,000. Barrington filed for registration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[134,79,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercial-litigation","category-copyright-litigation","category-corporate-law"],"yoast_head":"\nU.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Trademark Case — Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Guitar Center sells musical instruments. It created a new brand of woodwind and brass instruments produced by Eastman known as \u201cVentus.\u201d Barrington owns\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-trademark-case\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Trademark Case — Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Guitar Center sells musical instruments. It created a new brand of woodwind and brass instruments produced by Eastman known as \u201cVentus.\u201d Barrington owns\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Robert Kreisman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Trademark Case — Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"Guitar Center sells musical instruments. It created a new brand of woodwind and brass instruments produced by Eastman known as \u201cVentus.\u201d Barrington owns","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-trademark-case\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Trademark Case — Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","twitter_description":"Guitar Center sells musical instruments. It created a new brand of woodwind and brass instruments produced by Eastman known as \u201cVentus.\u201d Barrington owns","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Robert Kreisman","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-trademark-case\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-trademark-case\/"},"author":{"name":"Robert Kreisman","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"headline":"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Trademark Case","datePublished":"2019-06-13T10:00:38+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-trademark-case\/"},"wordCount":377,"articleSection":["Commercial Litigation","Copyright Litigation","Corporate Law"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-trademark-case\/","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-trademark-case\/","name":"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Trademark Case — Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-06-13T10:00:38+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"description":"Guitar Center sells musical instruments. It created a new brand of woodwind and brass instruments produced by Eastman known as \u201cVentus.\u201d Barrington owns","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-trademark-case\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-trademark-case\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-trademark-case\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Trademark Case"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/","name":"Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by Chicago Illinois Accident Attorney \u2014 Robert Kreisman","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b","name":"Robert Kreisman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Robert Kreisman"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com"]}]}},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7H0vI-1R0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7154,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130\/revisions\/7154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}