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April 27, 2021

ADT Files Trademark Lawsuit Against Amazon’s Ring Security Brand

ADT asserts that Amazon Ring willfully infringed on the company's blue octagon design for stickers and yard signs, creating brand recognition and customer confusion issues.
Andrew Nichols  
ADT Files Trademark Lawsuit Against Amazon’s Ring Security Brand

As shown here, ADT and Ring both appear to have similar designs for yard signs.

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News | Security
April 27, 2021

ADT Files Trademark Lawsuit Against Amazon’s Ring Security Brand

According to recent court filings in the southern district of Florida, ADT has filed a willful trademark infringement and unfair competition lawsuit against Amazon’s Ring brand of security products and services. The court proceedings come as a result of ADT noticing Ring’s use of the company’s famous blue octagon mark, which is protected under numerous federal trademark registrations.

In March 2021, ADT‘s complaint asserts, Ring adopted a blue octagon mark that is virtually indistinguishable from ADT’s blue octagon mark. ADT says its blue octagon is iconic in the security market, as the company uses the design for lawn signs and stickers at the homes and businesses of ADT’s more than 6.5 million customers across the United States.

Following an attempt to imitate ADT’s lawn signs, Ring went further and allegedly assimilated ADT’s blue octagon design into its Ring Alarm Outdoor Siren, according to the complaint. The lawsuit constitutes Ring’s second infringement of ADT property, as Ring obtained an unauthorized copy of a software platform ADT was working on back in 2017. ADT brought suit in Delaware and succeeded in restricting Ring from using the platform before the company settled with ADT.

Included in the court documents is a series of trademark designs for ADT’s blue octagon design.

According to court filings by ADT, this issue between the two companies has been going on for years. Originally, ADT reached out to Ring in August 2016 hoping Ring would take appropriate steps to avoid infringing on ADT’s blue octagon design for yard signs and minimize the risk of confusion by the public. In response, Ring changed the majority of its lighted yard sign’s design to be white with a blue accent at the top, while still maintaining the octagonal design. This was enough to mend the relationship between the two companies initially, but now the companies are once again embroiled in a lawsuit.


Related: Ring Settles with ADT in Zonoff Lawsuit, Acquires Lighting Co., Plans Spring Launch of Ring Alarm

Based on ADT’s claims in the court filings, ADT’s main issue with Ring adopting a similar design to its blue octagon is brand recognition. Right now, ADT believes people who see a blue octagon outside of a house know it is protected by ADT security services, and if another product comes onto the security market with similar branding, potential ADT customers may mistakenly believe it is associated with their brand when it is not.

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“Ring’s use of ADT’s Famous Blue Octagon will mislead consumers to believe that Ring is endorsed by and/or partnering with ADT, or will cause consumers to believe that Ring’s products are genuine ADT products when, in fact, they are not,” the company writes in its submitted court documents.

CE Pro will update this story with any added information or comments by Amazon/Ring as they are released.

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Andrew is a journalist and educator living in the Providence area. He was previously the Editor-in-Chief of a gaming and tech website, and the Managing Editor of his university newspaper, The Torch. He has spent the last 4 years writing and editing articles focused on the residential AV industry.
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