Use case
Proof of trademark use
A registered but unused trademark can be revoked. Documenting actual use, over time, is the best defense.
The situation
One scenario, two outcomes
The same moment, depending on whether the work was timestamped or not.
The trigger
Your trademark, registered nine years ago, has been in continuous use on a secondary product line.
Without proof
A third party files a revocation action for non-use. The burden of proof falls on you, over a five-year period: paper catalogs long gone, the website redesigned twice, invoices scattered across three systems.
With a certificate
Every quarter, website captures, campaigns and packaging were certified. The timeline of use exports as a single, continuous, dated file. The action is dismissed on the evidence, with no need to reconstruct anything.
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The need
Revocation, reference period, scattered evidence.
Use is proven, year by year
After five years without genuine use, a trademark can become subject to a revocation action. The burden of proof falls on the owner, over a period that's often distant — once the records have disappeared.
Build the file as you go
Catalogs, campaigns, invoices, website captures, packaging: certified regularly, these elements form a continuous, dated timeline — far more solid than a file reconstructed under pressure.
Useful on the offense too
The same documentation serves to demonstrate acquired reputation, to assert your trademark against a later filing, or to establish prior unregistered use.
→Website captures, campaigns, packaging, catalogs
→Periodic deposits automatable via API
→Timeline of use exportable as a single file
→Free-form evidence in civil matters — French Civil Code, Article 1358
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