soylights Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 I am so surprised...little me got a Cease and Desist Letter from the company "love Potion". I had renamed Love Spell to "love Potion" and had no idea someone else owned the name. I did do a search before naming my candle and did not find any products under that name, but it looks like a perfume company owns it.So this has me thinking. How do all of the FO oil suppliers use Yankee, BBW, and other designer names and get away with it? Also am I allowed to call it "love spell" as long as I put that it is VS type? Just curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candybee Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Seems to me that love potion is a very generic name thats been around for a long time. How can some company claim copyright unless they coined the term themselves? Sounds bogus to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaturallyTru Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Ask for proof that they copyrighted the name.Trudi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebeccajo99 Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 When I was doing research for renaming Love Spell, I found that "Love Potion" was trademarked for Lotions, perfumes and soaps, but I did not find anything about candles. (but I also was not looking that hard for candles) I would ask for thier proof of filing the name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenscandles Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Also am I allowed to call it "love spell" as long as I put that it is VS type? Yes you can, to the best of my knowledge. As long as it's marked as a duplicate or a type you should be fine. This would be similar to all those designer body sprays a few years back. "If you like 'x', then you'll love 'y'! " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitn Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 I would ask for proof. I think as long as you have type or dupe in the name it is okay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judy, USMC Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 (edited) When I was doing research for renaming Love Spell, I found that "Love Potion" was trademarked for Lotions, perfumes and soaps, but I did not find anything about candles. (but I also was not looking that hard for candles) I would ask for thier proof of filing the name.I did find something about Love Potion on TESS: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4010:aqdkjm.2.2 If the cease & desist is from the same company I would inform them that their registration does not cover candles. I couldn't find any other approved registration that applies to candles. Edited February 12, 2010 by Judy, USMC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soylights Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 Thanks for all the great input! Good to know that I can still keep the name just put "type" next to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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