unregistrable

Is a blatant drug reference for a consumable item inherently scandalous/immoral and thus unregistrable?

Archive 2009-01-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

The PTO has found FURNITURE MAKERS for a store that sells, but does not produce, furniture to be misleading and unregistrable.

How not to analyze a false advertising claim Rebecca Tushnet 2006

And it adequately alleged contributory infringement by stating that plaintiff “has willfully and intentionally induced third parties to infringe the Marks by encouraging others to misuse the Marks in the form of verbs, adjectives, gerunds, and participles ... so that this misuse will result in the Marks being rendered generic ... and for the specific purpose of rendering them unregistrable.”

Now leaving Sunnyvale: Second try's the charm Rebecca Tushnet 2006

Accordingly the Board of Appeal was right to find that the mark applied for was unregistrable on the basis of the absolute ground for refusal laid down in Article

The IPKat - IP news, views and mews 2010

Is a blatant drug reference for a consumable item inherently scandalous / immoral and thus unregistrable?

Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log 2009

Because Vertex did not seek to register the mark based on acquired distinctiveness, the Board deemed the mark unregistrable for that reason alone, and it also affirmed the PTO's two refusals to register on the grounds that Vertex's sound mark is functional under Section 2 (e) (5) and fails to function as a trademark for the goods (Sections 1, 2, and 45).

The TTABlog® 2009

The Board recognized that there are many past cases in which a surname was held to be rare but unregistrable with fewer than

The TTABlog® 2009