Band Name Getting Challenged By Corporation For Trademark Opposition.

We are a band between the Milwaukee and Chicago area in the USA.

We have been using our band name for over a year and half.

We own the domain for the band and have copyrighted all of our songs

through the library of congress.

We have our own logo (as evidenced on our website).

We believe it is distinctly different than the opposing corporation’s logo.

Our logo is stacked and their logo is linear.

We are not in the business of convenience/gas station stores. Unfortunately, due to the subreddit rules, the corporation can’t be named.

The colors, and even the font of our logo, we believe causes no conflict of distinction.

They believe the name that they have trademarked sounds like ours, and somehow, even though we are not in the same industry at all, they believe there will be a conflict of distinction.

We are wondering if anyone out there has any advice on how to proceed. We applied for a class 25 trademark. We should have applied for a class 41 trademark. That aside, we still believe that there is no conflict of distinction between our trademark and theirs.

We are planning on proceeding to challenge their opposition and enter settlement discussions.

Any advice would be hugely appreciated!