
Although the casual HDTV fan may not be entirely familiar with NuVision's "High Definition Living" trademark, a recently filed lawsuit is likely to bring you up to speed. The Arizona-based display maker purports that its slogan has been in use since the company's inception in 2005, and now that it has finally received registration of the mark this month, it's targeting Panasonic for infringement. If you'll recall, Panny launched its "
Living in High Definition" program earlier this year, which NuVision has taken serious issue with. According to its CEO, Panasonic has "knowingly and willfully infringed upon its mark," and another company exec even stated that the alleged culprit "believes that it is so large that the law does not apply to it and that it can copy [NuVision's] trademark with impunity." And considering that the aforementioned program is slated to run until March of next year, we highly doubt Panasonic is anxious to just ditch the slogan and move on.
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JeffDM @ Oct 23rd 2007 5:24PM
I did a Google Search, "Living in High Definition" returns "High Definition Living" as a book title in entry #1, why don't they sue those people too? Actually, it might not be as bad because it's not about electronics at all.
I don't know, this seems a bit fuzzy to me. Looking at Panasonic's site, the font used is different, uses some caps, is in bold, doesn't alternate in colors every word or letter. There are enough differences that I really don't see this as eating away at the value of the other trademark. I am not a lawyer though. I'm not even a marketer either, but it seems like it might be an attempt to grab some publicity too.
http://www.panasonic.com/livinginhd/