{"id":1744,"date":"2024-07-11T22:25:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T22:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wex-granted-preliminary-injunction-against-hps-wex-in-trademark-litigation\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T22:25:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T22:25:49","slug":"wex-granted-preliminary-injunction-against-hps-wex-in-trademark-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wex-granted-preliminary-injunction-against-hps-wex-in-trademark-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"WEX Granted Preliminary Injunction Against HP&#8217;s &#8216;Wex&#8217; in Trademark Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>WEX, a commercial banking company based in Portland, Maine, scored a victory in a trademark battle against HP\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0after a federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.med.65624\/gov.uscourts.med.65624.48.0_1.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">granted<\/a>\u00a0the plaintiff\u2019s motion for a preliminary injunction, banning HP from using its \u201cWorkforce Experience Platform\u201d trademark\u00a0during the pending case.<\/p>\n<p>WEX filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine\u00a0in April with allegations of HP illegally used the name \u201cWEX\u201d for its generative artificial intelligence platform. The banking company\u00a0moved for the preliminary injunction the day after filing the complaint. HP began developing the platform, known as the \u201cWorkplace Experience Platform,\u201d which became \u201cWEX\u201d in 2023, in order to compete with other technology companies\u2019 workplace experience and digital employee experience applications.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEX, a commercial banking company based in Portland, Maine, scored a victory in a trademark battle against HP\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0after a federal judge granted\u00a0the plaintiff\u2019s motion for a preliminary injunction, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2457,2458,600,1130,2352,1005,2456],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-granted","tag-hps","tag-injunction","tag-litigation","tag-preliminary","tag-trademark","tag-wex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}