Unicoin takes Uniswap to court over UNI trademark dispute
Unicoin says the UNI mark is generic and seeks declarations allowing it to keep using its name, logo and domains.
- On Tuesday, Sept. 8, TransparentBusiness Inc., doing business as Unicoin, sued Universal Navigation Inc., operating as Uniswap Labs, in the Southern District of New York to cancel Uniswap's federal UNI trademark registration.
- The filing follows months of legal pressure from Uniswap, which sent demand letters on June 3, July 17, and August 14, alleging trademark infringement and demanding Unicoin transfer its domains unicoin.com and unicoin.org.
- Unicoin argues 'uni' is a generic Latin prefix derived from unus meaning 'one,' citing more than 3,600 registrations in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database, while distinguishing its angular logo from Uniswap's curved imagery.
- The company claims Uniswap's demands arrived shortly before its planned public offering, asserting it has independently developed its brand since 2021 without causing market confusion.
- Seeking a jury trial, Unicoin points to other projects like Unibot and Unifi Protocol DAO that use 'UNI' naming, even as Uniswap ranks first among decentralized exchanges by 24-hour volume, with more than $3.9 billion in activity.
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Unicoin has sued Uniswap Labs in New York federal court, seeking declarations that its UNICOIN brand does not infringe Uniswap’s trademarks and asking the court to cancel Uniswap’s federal UNI trademark registration. Unicoin said in a Sept. 8 complaint shared…
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Unicoin and Uniswap Face Off in Court Over UNI Trademark
Unicoin has sued Uniswap Labs in a New York federal court, seeking a declaration that its UNICOIN trademark does not infringe Uniswap’s marks. It is also seeking cancellation of Uniswap’s federal UNI trademark registration, arguing that the term is generic or descriptive. The dispute follows months of correspondence over Unicoin’s use of the name and related domains.
TransparentBusiness Inc., which operates under the name Unicoin, filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Universal Navigation Inc., which operates as Uniswap Labs. Unicoin seeks for the court to declare that its UNICOIN brand does not infringe or dilute the brands of ... Read more
Unicoin demanded that the U.S. registration of the UNI trademark be cancelled and that its brand UNICOIN not violate Uniswap Labs ' rights be admitted to the Federal Court of the Southern District of New York.
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