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When you trademark a term, the trademark is usually scoped to a context (eg industry, product type). So, unrelated trademarks can exist with the same name, scoped to a different context.

See eg, https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/can-i-trademark-a-similar...

Of course, IANAL



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