The Department of Veterans Affairs’ use of the name “Vet360" wasn’t likely to confuse consumers with a similarly named veterans’ nonprofit and didn’t infringe its trademarks, a California federal court ruled.
Rick Collins renamed his veteran-support nonprofit Veterans 360 in 2012. According to Collins, the nonprofit does business as both “Veterans 360" and “Vets 360.”
The VA’s Veteran’s Experience Office developed an internal IT system that it referred to at least once as Veteran360, but more commonly called Vet360. It introduced the system to the public in 2018. Collins and the nonprofit later sued the VA for infringing their “Vets ...
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