In our last post, we looked a colors of products or packaging as potential trademarks that can be protected for certain brands. This time, let’s consider products themselves. Not the packaging of the products or the colors used in advertising, but the things themselves. When can the shape of the thing carry trademark rights for its sellers, […]
A brand name, a logo, a tagline. These are the traditional trademarks we are all used to. But what about the non-traditional ones that might come up only a handful of times in the course of a career prosecuting trademark applications?
It’s only mid-August, but the Back-to-School ads are everywhere, which can only mean that football season is also upon us. Here at Name Warden, we see everything through a trademark-related lens, and it’s been a busy summer for football trademarks.
Likelihood of confusion rejections – 2(d) refusals – are a common type of obstacle for a trademark application. When the examining attorney finds a similar-looking trademark in the USPTO records, for similar-seeming goods or services, up goes the 2(d) flag. What if there is not just one other user of a similar mark, but many? […]