USPTO Rejecting Incongruity Claim, TTAB Finds EGGBAR to be Merely Descriptive of Restaurant Services
If each word instead retains its merely descriptive significance in relation to the goods, the combination results in a ...
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USPTO Is BLANCO (Stylized) Confusable with BLANCO LABEL for Clothing?
The test, under the first DuPont factor, is not whether the marks can be distinguished when subjected to a side-by-side ...
USPTO BALLETCOLLECTIVE is a generic term for entertainment services in the nature of dance and ballet performances
To the extent that Applicant relies on its own particular use of the proposed mark with the first letter in the componen...
USPTO Blue-and-White Stripes Trade Dress Lacks Inherent and Acquired Distinctiveness
Acquired distinctiveness means that the “mark or dress has come through use to be uniquely associated with a specific so...
USPTO Ownership of Lapsed Registration No Justification for New Application for Same Mark and Goods/Services
Applicant focuses the majority of its briefing on its argument that it owned the Prior Registration covering the mark TO...
USPTO TTAB Reverses 2(d) Refusal for GHOST AGENCY & Design for Advertising Services due in part to a Crowded Field of “GHOST” Marks
To further support its argument that the cited mark is conceptually weak, Applicant made of record sixty-three third-par...
USPTO Is CELEBRITY PITCH TANK Confusable with SHARK TANK for Business-Themed Entertainment Services?
Frequently, first words can make the biggest impact as source identifiers. But this impact is blunted in Applicant’s mar...
USPTO The mark comprises the Italian flag, in violation of Section 2(b)
The relevant matter in the mark has green, white, and red parallel stripes (one each), arrayed almost vertically. It is ...
USPTO Is FOODANALYZER Generic for Food Sensitivity Testing Services?
Applicant’s services do not analyze food in the ordinary sense of that phrase − they do not test food for nutritional co...
USPTO THE OHIO IPA for Beer: Geographically Descriptive and Confusable with OHIO PALE ALE for Beer
We fail to see how this essentially laudatory use of “THE” in Applicant’s mark, which points to the words that follow (A...