re “While it has a duty to protect its marks, I’m still confused how it got them in the first place.”
1) Trademark law is not mainly for protecting trademark owners. It’s mainly for protecting consumers from brand confusion. But once again, it appears that “trademark bully” Entrepreneur Media is trying to intimidate and bankrupt an entrepreneur by suing them for federal trademark infringement, but claiming “likelihood” of confusion because they have no evidence of “actual” confusion. They also continue to falsely claim that their trademark is “famous.” As far as I know, they’ve never produced a single consumer survey that proves such a huge claim on a generic word like entrepreneur, which by the way predates Entrepreneur Media by well over 100 years.
2) Entrepreneur Media got its trademark by FRAUD. Its oldest “Entrepreneur” trademark application was perjuriously signed back in the 1980s by its founder, Chase Revel, using a fake and illegal name to hide that he was a convicted bank robber and serial con artist (search online for entertaining Los Angeles Times articles about Chase Revel’s extensive legal issues and illegal use of aliases).
3) One of Entrepreneur Media’s attorneys, Alex A. Graft of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, is being investigated by the State Bar of California for “forgery” and “perjury” because I let them know that to my disbelief, he forged my signature on a document and then filed it with the California Court of Appeal, and then blatantly lied about me on another document that he also filed with the California Court of Appeal.
4) Entrepreneur Media has tons more “cases” at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s “Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.” Just search for “Entrepreneur Media” (using quotation marks) in the “Party” field. You should not only be amazed by the number of cases, but also by how incredibly ridiculous they can be. For example, their case against a black woman nail salon owner for using the term ENTREPRENAILEUR in the “fields of nail care business.” Entrepreneur Media has also threatened Asians for using the phrase “Asian Entrepreneur,” Hispanics for using the phrase “Hispanic Entrepreneur,” and females for using the phrase “Female Entrepreneur.” And Entrepreneur Media has always been owned by white males.
5) Entrepreneur Media appears to be in serious decline. It’s flagship product, Entrepreneur Magazine, is down to only 6 issues per year, a massive 50% drop. And from what I can tell, they do not refund subscribers for issues they prepaid for but were never published. This could total millions of undeserved dollars for Entrepreneur Media.
6) Entrepreneur Media recently went through a significant corporate change. California-based Entrepreneur Media, Inc. is now “inactive”; Entrepreneur Media is now Entrepreneur Media, LLC, a Delaware-based LLC.
7) Entrepreneur Media’s chairman, Peter J. Shea, may have recently passed away, but if so, it doesn’t seem that Entrepreneur Media has honored him yet with any public announcements of his passing. I don’t think Entrepreneur Media ever publicly announced the passing of their founder Chase Revel either.
8) Entrepreneur Media is so desperate to prevent me from getting information like this out to the public, that they’re paying their very unethical and dishonest lawyers to sue me for defamation by filing what’s known as a “SLAPP” suit against me (SLAPP is an acronym for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation).
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