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AI Startup Perplexity Demanded Alleged Trademark Infringement

Perplexity, the venture-backed startup structure AI-powered search items, has been taken legal action against in federal court for allegedly violating another company’s trademark.

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

Perplexity Solved Solutions, a Plano, Texas-based company founded in 2017, used to register the Perplexity hallmark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in October 2021, according to the grievance.

Perplexity Solved Solutions primarily sells HR and office cooperation software, consisting of a merged dashboard for HR analytics and a videoconferencing tool called Perplexity Meet. The business protected a hallmark registration by November 2022 and began promoting products on its website, perplexityonline.com, a domain that Perplexity Solved Solutions had actually registered in 2021.

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

The Texas company alleges that AI startup Perplexity started infringing on its hallmark “in or around” August 2022 to promote its AI-powered search engine. The month prior – July 2022 – Perplexity had actually registered the domain perplexity.ai, which the complaint also alleges is violation.

“The [Perplexity] website presently situated at the infringing domain prominently features the Perplexity [trademark],” the grievance reads,” [and] the infringing goods and services are extremely similar to those used by Perplexity [Solved Solutions] and interest a comparable client base. For example, Perplexity [Solved Solutions’] ‘Perplexity Meet’ and defendant’s ‘Perplexity Spaces’ both are software platforms that assist in interaction and collaboration amongst associates in services and other organizations.”

Perplexity Spaces, which the San Francisco-based AI start-up launched for business customers in October, are hubs with an adjustable AI assistant and connectors to third-party platforms, apps, and file systems.

The complaint declares that Perplexity has “filled the market” with its infringing branding, consisting of marketing across its various social networks accounts. The AI start-up decreased to purchase 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 complaint, Perplexity didn’t adhere to a cease and desist letter from Perplexity Solved Solutions’ counsel, and it hasn’t withdrawn its pending trademark application – in spite of efforts to oppose the application before the USPTO’s trial and appeal board.

Attorneys for Perplexity Solved Solutions state that Perplexity’s usage of its trademark is likely to plant confusion.

“In truth, upon information and belief, consumers currently have been confused,” the problem reads. “For example, on various occasions, social networks users have ‘tagged’ Perplexity in their posts about defendant’s infringing items and services.”

The complaint declares that Perplexity’s conduct violates laws, consisting of the Lanham Act – the U.S. federal law that controls trademarks and unreasonable competitors. Among other types of legal relief, Perplexity Solved Solutions is looking for to bar Perplexity from using its trademark, in addition to the hallmark “Perplexity AI,” pay damages, and transfer ownership of any domains that include Perplexity branding.

It’s the most recent courtroom headache for Perplexity, which is presently fighting a suit submitted by News Corp’s Dow Jones and the NY Post over what the complainants explain as a “content kleptocracy.” Many other news sites have actually revealed concerns that Perplexity closely replicates their content – simply last October, The New York Times sent the startup a cease and desist letter.

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