A musician spends $30,000 to cancel 'power hour' trademark

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An independent musician from Pittsburgh, Ali Spagnola, has won the cancellation of the ‘Power Hour' drinking game trademark. She spent $30,000 of her own money on the case for 3 years, Forbes reported.

An independent musician Ali Spagnola wrote many drinking songs and played them at her “Power Hour” concerts. She sold some products and CDs as well. Then Spagnola faced a legal problem with the term of ‘power hour’ which already had trademarked by a company. She took this issue to the courts claiming that ‘power hour’ was a general term and had wide use.

““Essentially, my argument was that ‘Power Hour’ is not entitled to trademark protection because it is the commonly known name for a drinking game in which one shot of beer is consumed for one minute for a period of one hour,” Spagnola’s attorney, William Lang IV, told Alex Knapp of Forbes.

Finally U.S Patent and Trademark Office agreed that ‘power hour’ was not a legitimate trademark.

Click here to read more about its decision.

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