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TTABlog Test: Which of These Mere Descriptiveness Refusals Was/Were Reversed?

The TTAB recently ruled on the appeals from three Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals summarized below. Let's see how you do with them, keeping in mind that last year the Board affirmed, by my calculation, about 93% these refusals. Answer(s) will be found in the first comment.In re Friendship Retirement Corporation, Serial No. 87942568 (October 29, 2020) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge David K. Heasley). [Mere descriptiveness refusal of CENTER FOR MODERN AGING for "providing assisted living facilities" and for "continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) in the nature of nursing home services." Applicant maintained that the Examining Attorney erroneously dissected the proposed mark into its constituent words, each of which has a wide variety of definitions...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on November 05, 2020 (boomark / email).