Major League Baseball’s Athletics franchise, formerly the Oakland Athletics, has twice been refused a trademark registration ...

Before Prost, Taranto, and Stark. Appeal from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Continuous-use evidence is not necessarily prima facie evidence of acquired distinctiveness for a highly ...

Suppose you want to register a trademark that identifies a source of goods/services for your business. What if the trademark describes an ingredient, quality, feature, function, characteristic, or ...

Jafari Law Group, an Irvine-based intellectual property law firm, is raising awareness about the often-overlooked vulnerabilities of descriptive trademarks and providing strategic guidance to help ...

A trademark is a word or combination of words, a logo, design or even a color. The purpose of a mark is to allow the owner, a seller or maker of goods or services, to identify its products in the ...

The German Trademark Act (section 8(2)) states that trade marks cannot be registered in the following situations: if they are devoid of any distinctive character with respect to the goods or services; ...