"Cooperative Marks"

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What exactly is a "cooperative mark" and who owns it? If we apply for a trademark in the U.S., do we also have to worry about a "cooperative mark" in terms of conflict with our mark?

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A registered USPTO trademark will likely trump whatever a "cooperative mark" is, and the USPTO trademark examiners are quite talented at finding marks that conflict or are confusingly similar.

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