The United States Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (the “TTAB”) recently published a precedential decision regarding the treatment of trademarks for wine and.
Thu, Feb 18th 2021 7:38pm
Timothy Geigner
Back in 2010, we discussed that the at-the-time spin class craze in the fitness world was encountering the fact that one company, Mad Dogg Athletics, held a trademark on the term spinning for use in the fitness industry. Mad Dogg had taken to going around the world and threatening anyone else using the term with trademark infringement as a result. And, to be clear, they had
a lot of targets for these threats, which factored into the argument that term was now generic and hadn t been properly enforced as a trademark for years.
Since 2010, the spin class craze has morphed out of the brick and mortar gym and into home fitness, with the current fad being app-driven home stationary spin bikes. The leader in that field is, of course, Peloton. Mad Dogg sued Peloton for trademark infringement last year over patents it holds for core features of its bikes. In what may be something of a clap back in that dispute, however, Peloton has now pet
Peloton wants to liberate the term "spinning" from trademark control after years of "baseless" threats by a rival company, setting the stage for a closely watched case about both genericide and the pitfalls of aggressive enforcement.
Peloton is well known for its online spinning classes and related equipment, which have seen their popularity surge during the pandemic as gyms close and people opt.
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