Abandonment

Here’s What Happened: In 2005, Productos Avicolas del Sur, Inc., (PAS) began selling breaded chicken. PAS used a composite trademark containing the words POLLO PICU combined with a cartoon chicken. Then PAS ran into financial trouble. PAS neglected to file declarations of continued use. So the USPTO cancelled the registration.  In 2011, PAS’s bank froze […]

In Brief: When manufacturing stops, cancellation of a trademark is not far behind. Here’s What Happened:   Peavey Electronics Corporation manufactured a popular series of amplifiers from the 1970s to 2013 under the brand “CS”. Peavey shipped amplifier manufacturing to China and eventually dropped the CS brand from its catalogue. Domestic sales of CS amps […]