Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Welcome to Trademark Law Radio, a top web resource on issues of trademark infringement, trademark licensing, trademark protection, and trademark registration. The purpose of trademark availability assessment is really threefold. Youve been listening to Trademark Law Radio.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 26, 2024

I previously wrote about the case here: Crouch, Failures to Function and Likelihood of Confusion: Takeaways from Two Recent Federal Circuit Trademark Decisions, Patently-O (November 17, 2023). The Lanham Act requires that a trademark identify and distinguish the source of a good or service in order to merit protection.

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IIPRD

JUNE 13, 2024

This marks a significant shift in the prevailing paradigm. AI and intellectual property rights (IPR) aren’t just something for the patent and copyright geeks to nerd out on although it is that, it is something that going to have a lot of commercial and social impacts as AI challenges a lot of the ways we function in IPR.

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Intepat

MAY 29, 2024

.” The “Claiming User Date” category pertains to trademarks that are already in use by the applicant in the market, while the “Proposed to be Used” category applies to trademarks or service marks that are for future use.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The TMEP lists ‘a series of tones or musical notes’ and ‘wording accompanied by music’ as two examples of potentially registrable forms of sound marks. 3618321), and “[t]he NBC chimes sequence [, which] actually became the first ‘purely audible’ service mark to register with the USPTO in 1950.”

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Corsearch

AUGUST 30, 2023

The main factors in determining the likelihood of confusion are the similarity of the marks themselves and the similarity of the products for which the mark(s) will be used (or registered), but a number of other factors can also be a part of theequation, such as price, channels of sale, target customer groups, and actual confusion.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

When it comes to a very noticeable trademark, you always believe that what you are buying is something from a certain company with specified standards. Trademark laws prohibit anybody else from using similar signs or symbols in which customers might get confused with other businesses.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In other words, it must be able to indicate the source of the applicant’s goods or services and distinguish them from others. This requirement stems from the core purpose of trademark law, which is protecting the ability of consumers to readily identify the sources of goods and services.

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The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The CAFC observed that "[i]f the nature of a proposed mark would not be perceived by consumers as identifying the source of a good or service, it is not registrable," citing TMEP § 1202.04(b) The TMEP is not the law - ed. ].

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The CAFC observed that "[i]f the nature of a proposed mark would not be perceived by consumers as identifying the source of a good or service, it is not registrable," citing TMEP § 1202.04(b) The TMEP is not the law - ed. ].

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