NanoTech Entertainment Inc (NTEK)

[shajandr]

"nanosux didn't own the rights to the trademark 'future of television"

Nobody - NOBODY - can answer that question. NTEK had a registration for that mark, butt that is nott definitive proof of owning a valid, enforceable mark. it only provides a presumption which means a defendant has the burden to show the mark is nott legally enforceable or is owned by a different party in fact through use or field overlap.

You've asked a very fact-dependent and situation-dependent question that cannot be answered without a specific case of NTEK attempting to sue a particular third party based on a claim of a trademark for 'the future of television' during that period prior to abandoning the registration of that mark 12 months ago.