USPTO Is “LEFT RIGHT MIDDLE” Confusable with “LEFT CENTER RIGHT & Design” for Dice Games?
We keep in mind that when a mark, or a portion of a mark, is conceptually weak, it is entitled to a narrow scope of prot...
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USPTO “THE BATHING BEAUTIES” is nearly identical to “BATHING BEAUTY”
The addition of the term “THE” and the plural of BEAUTY as “BEAUTIES” is not enough to distinguish the marks. The marks ...
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...
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...
EUIPO Just saying ‘it’s B’ doesn’t make it the same B! – 1
Indeed, the descriptive, non-distinctive or weakly distinctive elements of a complex trade mark generally have less weig...
USPTO TTAB finds Unamimous Podcast and UNAMIMOUS GAMES similar
The stylized microphone seems to us to highlight only that Applicant’s service is a podcast, which involves audio (and s...
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...
USPTO TTAB Finds VITAWHEY Confusable with VITAWAYS for Dietary and Nutritional Supplements
In assessing the marks, we compare their “appearance, sound, connotation and commercial impression.” Refusal is appropri...