H&M Trademark of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB - Registration Number 3531296 - Serial Number 79049560 :: Justia Trademarks (2024)

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H&M Trademark of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB - Registration Number 3531296 - Serial Number 79049560 :: Justia Trademarks.

H&M Hennes & Mauritz Retail Pvt.

The H&M is the abbreviation for Hennes and Mauritz. In Swedish, Hennes means “hers.” The store was designed keeping women in mind. Later on, they started selling men's fashion clothing as well. Hennes acquired Mauritz — the huntsman apparel store, hence the name H&M.

Anyone can search trademarks for free using the USPTO's Trademark Electronic Search System, or TESS.

Copyrights protect artistic works and designs for clothing, whereas trademarks protect the name, logo, or slogan used to identify the brand of a clothing company. Read our guide about the differences between trademarks and copyrights and what they protect.

You can put the TM next to your brand at any time without seeking permission from anyone. You can still employ the TM symbol if you have no plans to register your trademark anywhere. The symbol merely indicates that you believe this is your brand.

Ownership The founder of H&M Erling Persson passed most of the company down to his children. His son Stefan Persson and family own 50.5% of the total shares and 76% of the voting shares. Meanwhile, his daughter Lottie Tham and family hold 5.4% of the total shares and 2.6% of the voting shares.

The Persson family, the founders and owners of H&M, originally invested $180 million in the foundation. One of the foundation's projects includes the Green Machine, a recycling technology that would allow clothing to be recycled in a similar way to aluminum can recycling.

The H&M Foundation is a long-term commitment from the Stefan Persson family, the founders and main owners of the H&M Group. As a philanthropic foundation, they find, fund and facilitate disruptive innovations, initiatives and research with the vision to enable an inclusive and planet positive textile industry.

Flash forward to 1968. It was this year that Hennes, which had taken off in Sweden, decided to purchase Mauritz Widforss, a hunting and fishing apparel and equipment retailer. There's no fancy Swedish meaning for Mauritz, other than it was the man's name who originally started the brand.

What does Mauritz mean? ›

Inspired by Maurus, Mauritz means “Moor” or “dark-skinned” and was a word used for people from a region called Mauritania in Africa. Whether honoring baby's ancestry, complementing their rich complexion, or simply in love with its charming chime, there's no denying Mauritz is a dapper choice.

The owners of Zara (Inditex) and H&M (H&M Group) are the world's two biggest players in fashion retail, and as such are under intense scrutiny as the market undergoes changes accelerated by the health crisis.

Searching the web for your logo will help you find anyone you may have copied, even accidentally. Simply do a reverse image search on Google to see if anyone has posted this mark online before. This also helps supplement steps one and three with more images similar to your new design.

Conduct a trademark lookup to find out who owns a trademark. This lookup, which is sometimes called a “trademark search,” can be conducted online for free on the USPTO's website at www.uspto.gov.

You can search all applied-for and registered trademarks free of charge by using the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)'s Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS). If your mark includes a design element, you will have to search it by using a design code.

Founded by Amancio Ortega Gaona, Zara is known for its fast-fashion approach, offering trendy and affordable clothing with quick turnaround times from design to store shelves. ZARA adopted as its first trademark in 1975 when it opened its first ship in La Coruna, Spain and the domain name was registered in 1997.

In the lawsuit filed against H&M, a June investigation by the news outlet Quartz was cited claiming that more than half of H&M's sustainability profiles portrayed products as being better for the environment than they actually were and, in some cases, were allegedly completely untrue.

Congress has denied copyright protection for clothing design because it views clothing as useful articles and not artistic creations, says Biana Borukhovich, a New York-based fashion attorney. "Generally, copyright protection is not available for the fashion industry in the U.S.," she adds.

H&M will refund most items within 30 days of purchase so long as they are in resellable condition, provided it has not been damaged, soiled, washed, altered or worn and that all labels and tags are attached, including furniture which must be disassembled and returned in it's original packaging.