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AI Startup Perplexity Demanded Alleged Trademark Infringement

Perplexity, the venture-backed start-up building AI-powered search items, has actually been sued in federal court for apparently violating another business’s hallmark.

In a problem filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, attorneys representing a business called Perplexity Solved Solutions implicate Perplexity of infringing on its trademark rights by utilizing the brand name “Perplexity.”

Perplexity Solved Solutions, a Plano, Texas-based firm founded in 2017, used to sign up the Perplexity trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in October 2021, according to the problem.

Perplexity Solved Solutions primarily offers HR and office collaboration software application, including an unified control panel for HR analytics and a videoconferencing tool called Perplexity Meet. The business secured a hallmark registration by November 2022 and started promoting items on its website, perplexityonline.com, a domain that Perplexity Solved Solutions had actually signed up in 2021.

Perplexity and counsel for Perplexity Solved Solutions did not react since press time. TechCrunch will upgrade the short article if either celebration remarks.

The Texas business alleges that AI start-up Perplexity began infringing on its trademark “in or around” August 2022 to promote its AI-powered search engine. The month prior – July 2022 – Perplexity had registered the domain perplexity.ai, which the likewise declares is infringement.

“The [Perplexity] website presently located at the infringing domain plainly includes the Perplexity [trademark],” the problem checks out,” [and] the infringing goods and services are extremely similar to those used by Perplexity [Solved Solutions] and interest a comparable consumer base. For example, Perplexity [Solved Solutions’] ‘Perplexity Meet’ and defendant’s ‘Perplexity Spaces’ both are software platforms that help with communication and collaboration among coworkers in companies and other companies.”

Perplexity Spaces, which the San Francisco-based AI startup launched for business consumers in October, are centers with an adjustable AI assistant and adapters to third-party platforms, apps, and file systems.

The complaint declares that Perplexity has actually “saturated the marketplace” with its infringing branding, including marketing throughout its numerous social media accounts. The AI start-up decreased to buy the Perplexity trademark in September 2023 when used, per the problem, and rather decided to apply for its own trademark with the USPTO, which is still pending.

According to the problem, Perplexity didn’t adhere to a cease and desist letter from Perplexity Solved Solutions’ counsel, and it hasn’t withdrawn its pending hallmark application – regardless of efforts to oppose the application before the USPTO’s trial and appeal board.

Attorneys for Perplexity Solved Solutions say that Perplexity’s use of its hallmark is most likely to plant confusion.

“In reality, upon information and belief, customers currently have been puzzled,” the problem checks out. “For instance, on various occasions, social networks users have actually ‘tagged’ Perplexity in their posts about defendant’s infringing items and services.”

The grievance alleges that Perplexity’s conduct breaches laws, consisting of the Lanham Act – the U.S. federal law that regulates trademarks and unjust competition. Among other kinds of legal relief, Perplexity Solved Solutions is seeking to bar Perplexity from using its trademark, along with the trademark “Perplexity AI,” pay damages, and transfer ownership of any domains that consist of Perplexity branding.

It’s the current courtroom headache for Perplexity, which is presently fighting a claim submitted by News Corp’s Dow Jones and the NY Post over what the plaintiffs refer to as a “content kleptocracy.” Many other news websites have actually revealed concerns that Perplexity closely reproduces their content – just last October, The New York Times sent out the start-up a cease and desist letter.

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