About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

97 Trademark Rep. [i] (2007)

handle is hein.journals/thetmr97 and id is 1 raw text is: (USPS 636-080) Copyright 2007, by the International Trademark Association All Rights Reserved Vol. 97 January-February, 2007 No. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLES AND REPORTS UNITED STATES ANNUAL REVIEW Introduction ................................................................................... 1 The Fifty-Ninth Year of Administration of the Lanham Trademark Act of 1946 Jordan S. Weinstein and Theodore H. Davis, Jr ................ 7 Part I. Ex Parte Cases ................................................................. 7 A. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ................................. 7 1. Genericness .......................................... 7 a. Mark Found Not Generic ........................................... 7 2. M ere Descriptiveness ...................................................... 9 a. Mark Found to Be Descriptive .................................... 9 3. Trade D ress ..................................................................... 13 a. Mark Found to Be Nondistinctive Product Configuration ............................................................ 13 B . O ther Courts ........................................................................... 16 1. Deceptive Misdescriptiveness ........................................ 16 a. Mark Found Deceptively Misdescriptive ................. 16 C. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ..................................... 19 1. G enericness ...................................................................... 19 a. Genericness Found ................................................... 19 b. Genericness Not Found ................................................. 22 2. D escriptiveness ................................................................ 25 a. Mark Found Merely Descriptive ............................... 25 b. Mark Found Not to be Descriptive ........................... 28 This issue of THE TRADEMARK REPORTER® (TMR) should be cited as 97 TMR __ (2007).

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most