Bernatello's Pizza opposed an application to register the mark LOTSA STONE FIRED PIZZA for restaurant services (STONE FIRED PIZZA disclaimed), alleging a likelihood of confusion with the registered marks LOTZZA MOTZZA for frozen pizza ...
A holiday present for all of us: the November–December 2020 (Vol. 110 No. 6) issue of The Trademark Reporter (TMR). Kudos to Editor-in-Chief Willard Knox for this impressive collection. Willard provided the ...
Whales may be rare, but even rarer is a USPTO quadrifusal! The Office refused to register four marks comprising or containing the term PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION for promotional, educational, fundraising, and ...
[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a law clerk (soon-to-be associate) in the Trademark Group at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.] In a nonprecedential opinion, the U.S. Court ...
The USPTO refused registration of the proposed mark HELP THE PERSECUTED (in standard character form), concluding that it fails to function as a source indicator for "charitable fundraising services." Examining Attorney Tara ...
Applicant Hayman Group Limited squeaked by with a Supplemental Registration for CITY OF LONDON for gin [LONDON disclaimed], after surviving an opposition based on four grounds: Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness, Section ...
In yet another in a continuing stream of failure-to-function rulings, the Board upheld a refusal to register the proposed mark TEAM JESUS for clothing items and educational and entertainment services promoting religion, ...
[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a law clerk (soon-to-be associate) in the Trademark Group at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.] The USPTO refused to register the mark GLOBAL ...
In this proceeding seeking cancellation of a registration for the mark PURISIMA & Design for wine, Respondent Transcend moved for summary judgment on two grounds: that Petitioner Spanishtown (1) is prohibited from ...
About a dozen years ago, a TTAB judge said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case 95% of the time just by looking at ...