And just like me Energizer thinks that Batteroo is responsible for whatever is posted by Facebook-Batteroo.
Well, if it were
not a legitimate official representation for Batteroo, most certainly their top-notch crackerjack legal team should have gone after whoever was causing those illegitimate, unofficial Facebook shenanigans... Shouldn't they have?!
TLDR: Batteroo knows exactly what those Facebook people are saying...
As for the people above who don't fully understand how trademark protection works... Just because you don't have a trademark doesn't mean you
can't sell your product with a given name but if you can forsee a situation that may be construed as causing confusion it would most certainly be a poor choice of action. Likewise if you
HAVE a trademark on a name or design mark, you still have to defend it. Having the registration means nothing unless you defend it, it merely gives you a leg up in legal standing, that you
officially registered it (the (c) in a circle versus the TM stating we claim this mark).
Nothing legally forbids Batteroo from shipping an item with the Batterizer name on it, it's just a very stupid thing to do when you know you're already on Energizer's radar for your BS product (that humorously happens to claim Energizer's products are a deceptive sham that only gives you 20% of claimed capacity .. LOL ..) Energizer needs to
DEFEND their marks, which is what they began by filing the recent actual lawsuit in anticipation of more BS from Batteroo. Realize that this is
totally different than Energizer's opposition to Batteroo's proposed trademark of Batterizer (the application which Batteroo abandoned, thus Batteroo have no Batterizer trademark...)
You don't have to get "approval" from anyone to sell an item with a given name but it is
always a good idea to do some basic searching of existing products, company names and trademarks, etc. before you do. We did a
LOT of searching for these kinds of things in our office when we did trademark and design searches in the '80s and '90s...
This is
Intellectual Property 101, folks....