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Pagani Car company is going after Pagani Design watches
1 point by paganidesign on May 13, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Pagani car company is going after Pagani Design watch company for trademark breach. A lawyer has told PD that they are not providing products or services in the international class that includes watches. So, if they attempted to sue them, they would have a good defense. Is this true?



Probably not (IANAL).

Pagani is widely recognized as an Italian manufacturer. Since they make VERY expensive and very luxury cars (among other things) they likely (imho) licence their name for use on other luxury branded items (like watches for example).

While I realize that there is also a town with the name, I feel that they (the car company) likely have a very solid claim.

I feel like this would be like someone attempting to sell Ferrari branded luxury watches claiming that the Ferrari car company did not have a prior claim to that branding.




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