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Full Of Sound And Query, Signifying Something: Recent Noise Over Acoustic Trademarks

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The TMEP lists ‘a series of tones or musical notes’ and ‘wording accompanied by music’ as two examples of potentially registrable forms of sound marks. 3618321), and “[t]he NBC chimes sequence [, which] actually became the first ‘purely audible’ service mark to register with the USPTO in 1950.”