2022 Advertising Designs Service Mark 
The TTABlog
AUGUST 24, 2022
The Board affirmed refusals to register the product design shown below as a trademark for acupressure mats and pillows, and as a service mark for retail store services featuring those goods, finding that the product shape lacked acquired distinctiveness as a trademark and failed to function as a service mark.
The TTABlog
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
91237315 (February 17, 2022) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Christen M. become ordained” or “become a minister,” is strong evidence that Applicant’s consumers will perceive “get ordained” not as a service mark but rather for the commonly understood meaning of the words. Welch 2022. American Marriage Ministries v.
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IP Intelligence
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
2, 2022, the Federal Circuit decided In re Vox Populi Registry Ltd. , The Federal Circuit found that substantial evidence supported the Board’s finding that consumers will perceive.SUCKS only as a non-source identifying part of a domain name and not as a service mark.
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
2, 2022, the Federal Circuit decided In re Vox Populi Registry Ltd. , The Federal Circuit found that substantial evidence supported the Board’s finding that consumers will perceive.SUCKS only as a non-source identifying part of a domain name and not as a service mark.
The TTABlog
DECEMBER 20, 2022
The pro se applicant argued, without success, that the proposed mark is suggestive rather than merely descriptive because "HUMAN could refer to any number of ambiguous interpretations about the mark, especially if HUMAN is used as a noun." 88526515 (December 15, 2022) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Michael B. Welch 2022.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MARCH 5, 2024
On the other end are brick and mortar stores that sell trademark-infringing items directly to consumers, regardless of whether the stores design or manufacture those items. Cite to Ohio State v. True, Pixels does not operate a DeYoung online retail store, nor does it offer original paintings.
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