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Is NYCU Confusable with NYU for Educational Services?

Opposer’s NYU registered and common law mark and Applicant’s NYCU mark is very similar in appearance and sound, differin...
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BOWENS for Guitars is Primarily Merely a Surname

Section 2(e)(4) of the Trademark Act precludes registration of a proposed mark on the Principal Register that is “primar...
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Is WISHBONES for a Casino Bar Confusable with WISHBONE FARMS for Restaurant Services? – 2

The additional word FARMS is a point of differentiation in the marks. But we do not agree with Applicant that it creates...
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Is WISHBONES for a Casino Bar Confusable with WISHBONE FARMS for Restaurant Services? – 1

The word WISHBONE has not been shown to describe any quality or characteristic of Registrant’s services nor is there any...
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Is “MUSIC.AI” Merely Descriptive of Music Production Software? – 6

The fact that an applicant may be the first and only user of a merely descriptive designation does not justify registrat...
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Is “MUSIC.AI” Merely Descriptive of Music Production Software? – 4

As seen in related fields involving high-technology goods and services characterized by rapid innovation and remarkable ...
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Is “MUSIC.AI” Merely Descriptive of Music Production Software? – 3

Of the remaining registered third-party marks shown below, we note that three of the registrations issued fourteen years...
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Is “MUSIC.AI” Merely Descriptive of Music Production Software? – 1

The record indicates that the term AI is a noun, or the abbreviation, for “artificial intelligence,” which is defined as...
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Canceling RAFT Registration for Computer Game Software Based on Prior Trademark Use

The Board has held in the context of an ownership dispute that “when the parties are claiming rights in the same mark fo...
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Canceling ZIGONG LANTERN GROUP Registration due to Geographical Descriptiveness

We take judicial notice that multiple English language dictionaries list “Zigong” as a defined word, and each such dicti...