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Support Your Fellow Martial
Arts Instructors In Using the Term Krav Maga!
STOP the U.S. Trademarks and overturn the Canadian trademarks!
Interview with Darren Levine
The attorney who trademarked Krav Maga
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USADOJO.COM and EDGE COMBAT FITNESS have chosen to work together to overturn the Krav Maga trademark in Canada. One well fougnt battle now will prevent hundreds of small battles later! Please use this page to make a donation to HELP FUND THE TRADEMARK COURT BATTLE. It is secure. Thank you !
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. . . a corporation under the laws of California, with its principal place of business at 11500 West Olympic Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, California, (“Krav Maga Worldwide”) is the owner of all rights in Canada to the trade mark KRAV MAGA, including the Canadian registration for KRAV MAGA covering martial arts training services, Registration No. TMA 462,000.
. . . immediately cease and never again resume using the trade mark KRAV MAGA, or any other mark that is confusingly similar to KRAV MAGA, in relation to services or wares relating generally to the field of martial arts or fitness training . . .
. . . immediately cease and never again resume selling, advertising, distributing and offering for sale martial arts and fitness training services, as well as training videos and t-shirts, in association with the trade mark KRAV MAGA . . . deliver-up or destroy under oath all of the aforementioned videos and t-shirts . |
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We All Must Stand Together
to Protect the Right To Use the
Martial Arts Term Krav Maga
The time to act is NOW!
Add your name to the group of people who have already signed using the Internet!
The Trade-marks Branch of the
Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
gave an attorney in Beverly Hills, California
the trademark rights to the term krav maga.
This Beverly Hills, California attorney, a civilian
krav maga instructor, who never served in the
Israeli army or with the Israeli police or as
part of Israeli counter intelligence, but who
is now suing those Israeli military men who
actually helped developed krav maga and other
qualified martial arts instructors who use the
term krav maga for their course of instruction.
(Would you want to be sued for using the term
tae kwon do or the terms karate, jujitsu or
aikido?) They are attempting to trademark krav
maga in the United States and around the world
even after the state of Israel itself determined
that the term is generic and can't be trademarked.
Help USADOJO.COM send a strong message to the
United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trade-marks
Branch of the Canadian Intellectual Property
Office (CIPO) in Canada and to Attorney Darren
Levine that we, as martial artists, will not
support the ownership of the term krav maga
by an individual and we will not support the
injustice he is perpetrating on the martial
arts community. On USADOJO.COM you will find
a petition form to sign. Please read the form
carefully and declare your support with USADOJO.COM
by signing the Petition to Protect every qualified
instructor's right to use the term krav maga
in Canada, the United States and around the
world.
Petition to rescind the trademark
for the term krav maga and to allow its free
use by all who properly use the term as qualified
instructors of the martial art of krav maga.
- United States Patent and Trademark
Office
- Trade-marks Branch of the Canadian Intellectual
Property Office (CIPO)
- Krav Maga Association of America, Inc. CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 6900 Canby Ave. Suite 105 Reseda CALIFORNIA 91335
- Krav Maga Worldwide Enterprises - Attorney Darren Levine - Beverly Hills, California
We believe the right to the
term krav maga belongs to its qualified martial
arts instructors all over the world, not to
one person who is using the term for financial
gain. The right to this term is fundamental
for the instructors of the martial art of krav
maga and should be a right that is protected
just as the right to use the terms karate, tae
kwon do or jujitsu are protected. We as martial
artists will not sit idly by and watch this
right be taken away.
This same action to trademark
the term krav maga with the United States Patent
and Trademark Office is now pending. We wish
to see this trademark overturned in Canada and
wish to voice our disapproval of a a US Trademark
for krav maga.
We stand with USADOJO.COM in
supporting the free use of the term krav maga
in Canada and everywhere in the world for qualified
instructors of the martial art of krav maga.
We ask that you swiftly review
the krav maga trademark and rescind the trademark
for the term krav maga. We ask that all suits
be stopped as this term is a public term to
be used by all martial arts instructors who
are qualified to teach the martial art of krav
maga.
The time to act is NOW!
If you are 18 or over please help by filling in the petition form below!
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