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"A S LIVE FOREVER" Fails-to-Function as a Service Mark for Online Retail Store Services, Says TTAB

The TTABlog

Simply calling A S LIVE FOREVER a brand cannot transform an otherwise unregistrable designation into a registrable mark." See Mayweather , 2020 WL 6689736, at *3.

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The IPKat

Recently, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia have made a collective endeavor to move towards the formation of a regional system dealing with trade marks, service marks and appellations of origin of goods in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). Marques provided an explanation of how it will work.

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TTABlog Quarterly Index: October - December 2021

The TTABlog

Crowded Field of Third-Party Registrations and Uses Leads to TTAB Reversal of "MATCH STUDIO" Over "MATCH" for Clothing Licensee's Prior Common Law Use Established Priority for "SNORE MD" Mark TTABlog Test: Is "BEDLAM VODKA & Design" for Vodka Confusable With "BEDLAM! & Design" for Beer?

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Get 2 Go Sued for Alleged Trademark Infringement of getGo®

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

After acquiring the Fort Wayne Rickers stores, Plaintiffs apparently became aware of Defendants’, Get 2 Go , Virk Brothers, LLC, and Charanjit Singh, use of the name and trademarks GET 2 GO in connection with three retail convenience stores in Fort Wayne (the “Infringing Marks”). Service Mark Registrations, Nos.

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Three Recent TTAB Oppositions Sustained on the Ground of Non-use

The TTABlog

Here are three recent TTAB rulings, each sustaining an opposition based upon non-use of the opposed service mark. For a service mark, the services must be rendered in order to qualify as "use in commerce" as defined in Section 45 of the Lanham Act. Hotberry LLC , Opposition No.

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The Interplay between Religious Sensitiveness and Trademark Law in India

IP and Legal Filings

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]. link] [2] Goldammer, K. 1999, July 26).

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Precedential No. 14: TTAB Affirms Two Expungement Decisions Based on Nonuse of SMARTLOCK for Evaporative Air Coolers

The TTABlog

In this appeal from final refusals issued in two expungement proceedings, the Board affirmed the USPTO Director's decision to cancel registrations for the mark SMARTLOCK , in standard character and design form, for "Components for air conditioning and cooling systems, namely, evaporative air coolers." Century Life of Am.,