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Confusion likely with the registered mark IDEAL SALE for “Real estate investment services” – 2

The marks IDEAL CAPITAL GROUP and IDEAL SALE “are visually similar, as both begin with the word” IDEAL. “The second elem...
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Confusion likely with the registered mark IDEAL SALE for “Real estate investment services” – 1

There is nothing on the face of the mark to suggest that the word IDEAL is an acronym for “Income, Depreciation, Equity,...
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Is HELANDE (Swedish) Merely Descriptive of Skin Care Preparations? – 2

Thus, the “appreciable number principle does not require an absolute majority of the population being capable of transla...
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Is HELANDE (Swedish) Merely Descriptive of Skin Care Preparations? – 1

Section 2(e)(1) of the Trademark Act bars registration of a mark that is merely descriptive when used on or in connectio...
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Is MICHAEL THE BULL Confusable with THE BULL ATTORNEYS! for Legal Services?

The word mark THE BULL ATTORNEYS! is more dissimilar than similar in appearance and sound to MICHAEL THE BULL because th...
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Are Industrial Heat Exchangers Related to Vacuum Cleaners? – 3

It has long been held that the mere fact that two different items can be found in a supermarket, department store, drugs...
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Are Industrial Heat Exchangers Related to Vacuum Cleaners? – 2

Yet a third way of showing that consumers perceive two types of goods to be related is to show that third-party companie...
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Are Industrial Heat Exchangers Related to Vacuum Cleaners? – 1

If the goods or services in question are not related or marketed in such a way that they would be encountered by the sam...
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Is FLAT EARTH SURF CLUB Confusable with TERRA PLANA for Clothing?

Under the doctrine of foreign equivalents, foreign words from common modern languages are translated into English to det...
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TTAB Deems MARIO’S for Clothing Confusable with MARIO’S 3.10 for Retail Apparel Stores

Applicant’s mark is MARIO’S and the cited mark is MARIO’S 3.10. While there is no rule that marks are automatically cons...