![]() So we do not offer any trademark related license agreement at the moment besides our own products. We need to protect our users from getting confused. As a result of such long-term use, advertising and expenditures, Adblock Plus has established considerable goodwill in the ADBLOCK® Marks. But Adblock Plus has continuously used the ADBLOCK® Marks since January 2006 in the United States and throughout the world, and has invested and continues to invest heavily to develop and enhance the fame of the ADBLOCK® Marks. We understand that your company uses the name "AdBlock" in connection with its advertisement screening software. However, on March 30, the Adblock Ultimate team received an email (displayed in full below) from Google informing them the extension had been removed from the Chrome Web Store on the grounds of a trademark infringement complaint from Adblock Plus-owner, Eyeo. The desktop browser extension has notched up more than 1 million downloads on Firefox and 10,000 downloads on Google Chrome since its launch late last year, Adblock Ultimate claims. The news comes a month after Business Insider reported on a separate DMCA request from Adblock Plus parent company Eyeo saw Apple remove mobile ad blocker Magic Adblock from its App StoreĪdblock Ultimate was created by a "group of enthusiasts from Bulgaria who were sick and tired of ad blockers that have 'Acceptable Ads' and whitelists and don't block ads on most websites and ," developer Veselin Georgiev told Business Insider. ![]() ![]() One of the developers behind free desktop ad blocker, Adblock Ultimate, says he is "surprised and confused" after a trademark complaint from the company behind the popular ad blocker, Adblock Plus, forced his software out of the Google Chrome Web Store. Adblock Ultimate claims to have reached 1 million downloads since it launched late last year. ![]()
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