USPTO 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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USPTO 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...
USPTO 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...
USPTO 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...
USPTO 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...
USPTO TTAB Affirms Genericness Refusal of FREE PHOTOS
When a mark is composed of dictionary words, those definitions generally inform its meaning and connotation. The Examini...
USPTO “NO LAW DEGREE REQUIRED” Fails to Function as a Source Indicator for Business Consulting and Legal Information Services
“Failure to function” is an umbrella term because there are many reasons why a proposed mark may not function as an indi...
USPTO Is YOGUT for Freeze-Dried Yogurt-Based Snacks Confusable with YOURGUT for Yogurt?
The registered mark is YOURGUT for yogurt and Applicant’s mark is YOGUT for freezedried yogurt-based snacks. The marks, ...
EUIPO 10 – IN – 1 is uncapable of fulfilling the essential function of a trade mark – 3
There is nothing in the contested sign that would constitute a play on words or introduce a conceptual intrigue. Whereby...
EUIPO 10 – IN – 1 is uncapable of fulfilling the essential function of a trade mark – 2
It is well-known that consumers purchase the contested goods with the aim of obtaining as many benefits as possible whil...