We've been selling a "These fools put my cape on backwards" bib for years, since 2013!, I designed the graphics myself and haven't had any issue at all, not out of the blue I get a ebay message containing a cease and desist with threats of ip attorney from an american company who it looks like trademarked the phrase "cape on backwards" in 2014..
While digging into his claim he has registered the phrase in the US but also there's someone in the UK who has the phrase trademarked in the UK too.. which has further confused things..
can they stop me from selling this design on the basis of 3 words of a 7 word sentence? and having registered the trademark after I started selling the product? if so I've seen companies registering single words like "sweet" so does that mean I have to check the ip database for every word I ever print just in case?
Thanks in advance..