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Genericness Opposition to MLD FAMILY for Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) Advocacy

To show that a mark has acquired distinctiveness, an applicant must demonstrate that the relevant public understands the...
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Is M8KIT Confusable with M8 for Clothing?

The existence of third-party registrations on similar goods can bear on a mark’s conceptual strength. Specifically, thir...
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CAMPANARIO for Alcoholic Beverages Except Beer Confusable with BELL TOWER for Beer

Under the doctrine of foreign equivalents, foreign words from common languages are translated into English to determine ...
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Is ELEMENTAL BEAUTY for Skincare Products Confusable with BEAUTY IS ELEMENTAL for Nutritional Supplements? – 1

Here, both marks contain the identical words ELEMENTAL and BEAUTY, with Applicant’s mark ELEMENTAL BEAUTY transposing th...
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Is APPARITION Confusable with PHANTOM for Wine? – 2

APPARITION and PHANTOM are completely different words that otherwise share no similarities as to sound or appearance. In...
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Is APPARITION Confusable with PHANTOM for Wine? – 1

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held that if there is evidence that a mark, or an element of a mar...
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Is BATTLE ROYALE GOLF Merely Descriptive of Golf Games?

However, if each component retains its merely descriptive significance in relation to the goods or services, the combina...
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Clothing and Perfume are Related

The Application and Cited Registration identify goods that are not restricted by target market, price, or any other mann...
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Is “GREEN COLLECTIVE” Merely Descriptive of Kitchen Utensils?

The combined terms GREEN and COLLECTIVE are merely descriptive if the individual components retain their descriptive mea...
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Refusal of the mark LITTLE MEXICO for “Take-out restaurant services” [MEXICO disclaimed]

Considering the marks in their entireties, we acknowledge that the marks have some dissimilarities in sound and appearan...