IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Introduction A mark represents the institution or company to which it belongs and serves as a means of differentiating goods or services among individuals. Marks can be of various types i.e., word marks, service marks, logos, symbols, series marks, etc [1]. 1] Acharya, M. 2022, February 28).

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Trademark Law Trademark Law Service Mark 98

The TTABlog

AUGUST 5, 2024

662, 678 (2009). The question, then, was "whether, as a matter of law, online retail store or mail order activities featuring only a party’s own goods are 'services' as contemplated in the Trademark Act." The Trademark Act defines "service mark" but does not define "services." Ashcroft v. Iqbal , 566 U.S.

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Trademark Service Mark Registration Television 56

The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Petitioner claimed that its restaurant had a "soft opening" in September 2014, with the mark THE HAPPIEST HOUR displayed on signage, but its evidence was "contradictory, inconsistent, and indefinite." Several press releases were issued at that time, but they did not constitute service mark use. See Couture v. & Rehab.,

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Service Mark Registration Advertising Advertising 40

LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 19, 2023

” Scrooge wasn’t the only one who had that idea: a business owner registered ALWAYS CHRISTMAS & Design as a service mark in 1995 (Registration No. It was cancelled in May 2009. But we wonder whether the KWANZAA POPCORN applicant would nonetheless get tripped up by the descriptiveness of “POPCORN.”

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