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From Creative Gifts v. UFO, 235 F.3d 540 (10th Cir. 2000)

Sherlocks' fourth and final rejected defense before the district court was that Creative's grant of authority for their use of the Levitron trademark had been a naked license: permission to use the mark without attendant provisions to protect the quality of the goods bearing the licensed mark. Because naked licensing if established is treated as an abandonment of the trademark, which triggers the loss of trademark rights against the world, anyone attempting to show such abandonment via naked licensing faces a stringent burden of proof (Moore Business Forms, Inc. v. Ryu, 960 F.2d 486,489 (5th Cir. 1992), citing Taco Cabana Int'l, Inc. v. Two Pesos, Inc., 932 F.2d 1113, 1121 (5th Cir. 1991), later aff'd 505 U.S. 763 (1992)).

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