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USPTO Refuses Washington Football Team’s Trademark Request

Above the Fold

While the NFL’s Washington Football Team decides on a more permanent name (likely in 2022), its hopes of trademarking its current moniker have been put on ice. First, the USPTO reasoned that the applied-for mark was “primarily geographically descriptive”—i.e., that the mark was too generic.

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Can You Register Realistic Images of Common Goods as Trademarks?

Corsearch

In Autumn 2022, Apple was granted trademark protection by the Swiss Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI) for a limited number of products. Trademark solutions you can trust As the trademark landscape continues to evolve, it is critical that your strategy is fluid and the external partners you use can respond to change.