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Federal Circuit on TM Law’s Information Matter Doctrine

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by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit has just reissued this important trademark decision as precedential. The Lanham Act requires that a trademark identify and distinguish the source of a good or service in order to merit protection. In re GO & Associates , 22-1961 (Fed. See, TMEP § 1202.04(b)

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At USPTO's Request, CAFC Re-designates as Precedential Its EVERYBODY VS RACISM Failure-to-Function Affirmance

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e), the CAFC has re-designated as precedential its opinion in In re GO & Associates, LLC , Appeal No. 14, 2023, re-designated as precedential, January 22, 2024). The TMEP is not the law - ed. ]. At the request of the USPTO under Fed. 2022-1961 (Fed.

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