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Ranna®
Contemporary
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Hot Spots
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At Embassy
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Ei-shodou
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Black &
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Figurative
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Previously
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CONSUMER
ADVISORY RE THE UNAUTHORIZED USE OF THE RANNA® TRADEMARK
The trademark,
Ranna®, owned by Dr Ranna-Lesley Lachlan (PhD, DFA, Grad. D. Mat
Anth), is an international trademark registered with the USPTO for
creative work by the living artist Ranna (Dr Ranna-Lesley Lachlan
[PhD, DFA, Grad. D. Mat Anth]) in the categories of 2D art works -
namely Paintings, mixed media paintings, and 3D artworks - namely
installations. It was registered in 2004 and achieved uncontestable
status since 2010.
UNAUTHORIZED
& UNLICENSED USE - TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT AT DEVIANT ART
Your
arrival at this page probably means that you have either followed
a link here or done an online search for "Ranna" and may
have encountered two artists' pages on the Deviant Art website, violating
a pre-existing trademark. Please read the following for clarification.
NO AFFILIATION
Art lovers
are advised that the artist Ranna®, the owner of the trademark
term "Ranna®" - Dr Ranna-Lesley Lachlan (PhD, DFA, Grad.
D. Mat Anth), and the company Ranna® Arts Incorporated LLC
and its DBA subsidiaries, have absolutely no affiliation or association
with the purported Ranna and Ranna-San on the Deviant Art website,
or with Deviant Art itself.
Further,
the Deviant Art members have misappropriated the mark even though
one states that it is not her actual name and there is no evidence
that it is the actual name of the other artist, but rather a "username"
within the Deviant Art community. In the Ranna-San case, the post-fix
"san" is merely a Japanese language generic the same as
Mr or Mrs and therefore confers no separating status from the trademark
Ranna®.
The purported
Ranna and Ranna-San on Deviant Art are not authorized by the trademark
owner to use the term and have never contacted the trademark owner
to request authorization or licensing.
The purported
Ranna, the purported Ranna-San, and Deviant Art have never attempted
to initiate any licensing arrangement with the actual artist Ranna®
represented here on ranna.com, or with Dr Ranna-Lesley Lachlan (PhD,
DFA, Grad. D. Mat Anth) or Ranna® Arts Incorporated LLC for the
use of Ranna's trademark name for art works in the same "class".
Accordingly,
the use of the trademark name by the purported Ranna and purported
Ranna-San on Deviant Art for national and international distribution,
is considered by the owner of the mark to be an infringement through
creating "market place confusion", "dilution"
and "passing off".
COMMUNICATION
WITH DEVIANT ART
Communication
was initiated with Deviant Art by the trademark owner, regarding the unauthorized use of the trademark on
their website. Deviant Art continues to permit the two infringing
artists to use the name Ranna. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, trademarks are also protected intellectual property. Accordingly,
a DMCA "take-down" notice to Deviant Art is in preparation.
Reviewer:
Ranna's art "...explores the
profound while serving as a portal
to beauty."
(Kennelly, E., re Island, Continent exhibition by Ranna®, Washington
DC.
The author writes for Art & Antiques,
Art & Auction, ARTnews.) |