USPTO DANKEES Confusable with YANKEES for Clothing
Applicant’s mark is DANKEES and Opposer’s mark is YANKEES. Applicant’s mark is in standard character format, not limited...
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USPTO Is BUFFALO CITY for Alcoholic Beverages Confusable with BUFFALO TRACE for Bourbon?
Overall, a net 30.5 percent of respondents are likely to be confused and believe that Buffalo City is from the same comp...
USPTO “Squirt-style lineup” survey
Petitioner’s expert, Sarah Butler, conducted as “Squirt-style lineup” survey of 401 relevant consumers. The survey popul...
USPTO Are Mugs and Drinking Straw Cleaning Brushes Related?
When comparing the goods, the question is whether the goods are related in some manner, or that the conditions and activ...
WIPO Is a domain name consisting of the complainant’s mark plus a third-party trademark confusingly similar to the complainant’s trademark?
Where the complainant’s trademark is recognizable within the disputed domain name, the addition of other third-party mar...
USPTO The first Dupont factor weighs in favor of likelihood of confusion
The oval design feature of Applicant’s mark that surrounds the word DSU and frames it, forming a background, does not di...
EUIPO TOUR DE FRANCE: ‘Tour de’ is too weak to prevent registration of ‘TOUR DE X’
The risk that the public may believe that the goods or services in question come from the same undertaking or from econo...
EUIPO Same letter, different graphical depiction – not enough for likelihood of confusion without the same concept
The Board of Appeal (BoA) notes that the overall visual impression of the signs, even if both are perceived as containin...
USPTO Parody Does Not Implicate First Amendment Concerns, But Only Implicates Likelihood of Confusion
US Supreme Court > Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC, decided June 8, 2023We do not decide whether theR...
EUIPO A potential head of damage – dilution
L’Oréal v Bellure (Case C-487/07), CJEUAs regards detriment to the distinctive character of the mark, also referred to a...