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Long, Strange Trip Ends in Split TTAB 2(d) Decision for "ORIENT-EXPRESS" Applicant

Fifteen years after filing his application, Stuart S. Hoffman's attempt to register the mark ORIENT EXPRESS & Design (shown immediately below) for cigars and smoking tobacco was derailed by the TTAB when it sustained Section 2(d) oppositions brought by the French railway SNCF and by VSOE, the owner of the ORIENT-EXPRESS railway line. The Board, however, gave the green light to Hoffman's 1997 application to register the same mark for perfume and cologne. Unlike a trip on the Orient-Express, the Board's journey to that result is neither romantic nor exciting, but the TTABlog shall summarize it nonetheless. Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais and Venice Simplon-Orient Express, Inc. v. Stuart S. Hoffman, Oppositions Nos. 91095769, 91097079, 91109552, 91109821 (February 9, 2009) [not precedential]...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).