The TTABlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Of course, since the involved services are identical in part, the Board must presume that the channels of trade and classes of consumers for the identical services overlap. California claimed that its ring design mark is commercially strong, but its evidence did not relate solely to the ring mark.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 19, 2024

Trademarks — which can include words, phrases, symbols, designs, or a combination of these things — play a crucial role in establishing and protecting a brand’s identity: they help ensure that consumers can reliably identify the origin of a product or service, which can build brand loyalty and trust.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 22, 2023

In a twin set of precedential opinions, the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board laid the foundation for determining whether building designs can be trademark protected as service marks. In re Palacio Del Rio, Inc., 88412764; 88437801 (TTAB May 25, 2023) (Shaw, Goodman, Hudis, ATJs); In re Seminole Tribe of Florida, Ser.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 5, 2023

There are plenty of fish in the sea when it comes to trademarks: from word marks to service marks; from symbols to surnames; from product packaging to product design. When the time is right, and you feel like you have found “the one,” it is important to lock it down.

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The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The Board upheld a specimen refusal for the mark HEARTIFY & Design for software as a service (SAAS) featuring software for providing health-related data and information, in Class 42. Applicant's specimen of use displayed the mark in connection with a mobile phone app, but not with SAAS. In re Heartify LLC , Serial No.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Trade Dress Is Either a Trademark or Service Mark. Trade dress” functions as either a trademark or service mark. A “trademark” is any word, term, phase, symbol, logo, design, shape, tag line, background, color, scent, sound, device, or combination thereof, which distinguishes the goods (i.e.,

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The TTABlog

MARCH 8, 2022

The Board upheld a refusal to register the proposed mark MADE FOR YOU LAB-GROWN DIAMONDS , in standard character and design form, for 'diamonds; jewelry" [LAB-GROWN DIAMONDS disclaimed], finding that the phrase fails to function as a trademark. The Trade Mark [sic] Act is not an act to register words but to register trademarks.

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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A designation used merely as a trade name cannot be registered under the provisions of the Trademark Act." A designation may function as both a trade name and a trademark. The fact that Applicant does not include a corporate designation, such as “Inc.”, 15 U.S.C. § See , e.g. , In re Letica Corp. , 192 USPQ 165, 167 (TTAB 1976).

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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

“become ordained” or “become a minister,” is strong evidence that Applicant’s consumers will perceive “get ordained” not as a service mark but rather for the commonly understood meaning of the words. Its intent that the phrase function as a service mark is irrelevant. In re Hulting , 107 USPQ2d 1175, 1180 (TTAB 2013).

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

19: TTAB Affirms Section 2(b) Refusals of Orange County "Unofficial" Insignia Section 2(d) - Likelihood of Confusion: TTABlog Test: Is "MOXIE SCRUBS" & Design Confusable with "MOXIE" for Clothing? [No] 13th DuPont Factor Saves Four "GAIA" Marks For Supplements From Section 2(d) Refusal Precedential No. Abandonment: Precedential No.

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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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. BlackBerry Limited v. Hotberry LLC , Opposition No.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Trademark refers to any sign, logo, word, phrase, or design that identifies and distinguishes the source of goods or services from others in the market. The Authority: Trademark registration in India is regulated by the Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trademarks (CGPDTM). What is a Trademark?

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IP Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Federal Circuit found that substantial evidence supported the Board’s finding that consumers will perceive.SUCKS only as a non-source identifying part of a domain name and not as a service mark.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Federal Circuit found that substantial evidence supported the Board’s finding that consumers will perceive.SUCKS only as a non-source identifying part of a domain name and not as a service mark.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Regarding the IPR matters, Cambodia has issued the following legal documents: • Law concerning Marks, Trade Name and Acts of Unfair Competition dated January 8, 2002; • Law on Patents, Utility Model Certificates and Industrial Designs, in force since January 2003; • Law on Copyright and Related Right, in force since March 2003.

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The TTABlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

Sections 1, 2, 3, and 45 of the Trademark Act provide the statutory basis for a refusal to register subject matter that fails to function as a service mark. “[N]ot N]ot every designation adopted with the intention that it performs a trademark function and even labeled as a trademark necessarily accomplishes that purpose….”

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The IPKat

JULY 4, 2021

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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The TTABlog

AUGUST 15, 2023

In a whopping 82-page opinion, the Board affirmed the USPTO's refusal to register PARKING.COM , on either the Principal Register or the Supplemental Register, as a service mark for “website providing information regarding parking availability." A declaration from an officer of ST Plus lacked detail and was unpersuasive.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 1, 2023

The Board upheld the USPTO's refusals to register the two proposed marks shown below, for "hotel services; provision of conference, exhibition, and meeting facilities," finding that the building designs are not inherently distinctive and lack secondary meaning. In re Palacio Del Rio, Inc. Serial Nos.

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The TTABlog

JULY 8, 2024

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.,

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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

And it argued that it uses A CHANCE TO LIVE LONGER in a manner that projects trademark and service mark significance because the "specimen shows that the slogan A CHANCE TO LIVE LONGER is presented in the same stylization and colors, and with the same embedded diagonal-streak design element, as the pharmaceutical brand name to which it relates."

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

On the other end are brick and mortar stores that sell trademark-infringing items directly to consumers, regardless of whether the stores design or manufacture those items. CafePress * Cafepress Suffers Potentially Significant Trademark Loss for Users’ Uploaded Designs * Life May Be “Rad,” But This Trademark Lawsuit Isn’t–Williams v.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

AUGUST 18, 2021

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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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In a precedential decision the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) affirmed a refusal to register a character featured in a video game on the grounds that the proposed design mark failed to function as a trademark. Color was not claimed as part of the mark. [1] In re Joseph A. Stallard , Serial No.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 14, 2023

A trade name often is designated by the term “doing business as,” “trading as,” or “operating as” to make this distinction from the legal name. This is created through personal contact with the client in connection with the use of services or products, contact with sales or client support, or through brand communication (marketing).

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 3, 2023

The more familiar the term or phrase is, the less likely it will be a mark that could be used to identify a single source of goods or services. Marks consisting of designs or patterns may also be rejected as a failure to function. It may be rejected for being a mere graphic representation of the product.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 27, 2024

The Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark WE’RE HERE TO HELP WITH YOUR LEGAL NEEDS! finding that the phrase fails to function as a service mark for "legal services." That opinion had originally been deemed nonprecedential, but at the USPTO's request, the court re-designated it as precedential.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

One of the first enacted changes concerned the rules for calculation of the compensation paid to the patent owner in the event that an invention, utility model, or industrial design is being used without the patent owner’s authorization. These rules were introduced in the 2021 amendment to Article 1360 of the Civil Code.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Defendants' letter allegedly copied text from LStar Trademark infringement: LStar never specified what its trademarks or service marks were. False designation of origin: Failed to state a passing off claim, but Dastar didn’t bar a reverse passing off claim. Some service/product confusion also going on here.]

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Velocity of Content

JULY 26, 2022

In contrast, trademarks in the United States —in some instances referred to as service marks or trade names—are created by use by a person “in commerce”; technically, no government approval is required. Copyright Office, after what amounts to a much lighter review process.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Board, however, had no doubt that HUMAN DATA MARKETPLACE is merely descriptive because it "immediately conveys knowledge of a quality, feature, function, or characteristic of Applicant’s online marketplace and platform featuring data assets."

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Opposer and applicant agreed in the Asset Purchase Agreement ("APA") that opposer would “maintain sole rights in the designation ‘KME’ for use as a trademark” and that applicant would “eliminate references to ‘KME’” and “cease making use of the trade names and product or service marks of [Opposer] or confusingly similar designations or trademarks.”

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Frequent TTAB litigant Monster Energy Company opposed Jones's application to register the mark MONSTER SQUAD DEL MAR (in standard characters) for "Training services in the field of Health and Wellness/fitness," claiming likelihood of confusion with, inter alia , the following two registered marks: MONSTER ARMY in standard characters, and M MONSTER (..)

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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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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Without evidence, Game Plan's claim of common law rights was baseless and so the Board considered only its registered service mark rights. Game Plan, Inc. While this fact saved Game Plan's Opposition from dismissal for failure to prosecute under Trademark Rule 2.132, it leaves Game Plan with no other evidence to support [its] claims."

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Patently-O

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Lanham Act requires that a trademark identify and distinguish the source of a good or service in order to merit protection. If the nature of a proposed mark would not allow consumers to perceive it as designating a particular source, then it cannot qualify as a trademark eligible for federal registration.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

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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