David Beckham is in the news again. This time it’s all
about a new US football venture. A venture that has run into a
trade mark problem.
Beckham is heavily involved in the formation of a new Major
League Soccer (“MLS”) professional
football team that will be based in Miami, Florida. The
team’s first home game is scheduled to take place very soon,
14 March 2020. The team will be called Inter Miami (full name Club
Internacional de Fútbol Miami), but Inter Miami for short,
or will it?
As any football lover knows, there’s a rather famous
football club that plays in the Italian Series A league called
Inter Milan. This team is often referred to simply as Inter. In
2014, the Italian team applied to register the name Inter as a
trade mark in the USA. That application is still pending.
