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WYHA? "INVENTION REGISTRY" Merely Descriptive of Invention Document Storage, Says TTAB

Would You Have Appealed this one? The TTAB affirmed a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register the mark INVENTION REGISTRY, finding it merely descriptive of "electronic storage of archival documents related to invention conception dates" [REGISTRY disclaimed]. The Board agreed with Examining Attorney Sani Khouri that the mark "immediately describes, without any kind of mental reasoning," the purpose of applicant's services. In re Krasik, Serial No. 77381912 (September 11, 2009) [not precedential].U.S. Patent No. 6,647,892Calibrated Angle and Depth ScissorsThe Examining Attorney relied on dictionary definitions of "register" and "registry," and on a website excerpt referring to the ability of the government to maintain an "invention registry." [The Board understandably found irrelevant the Examining Attorney's reference to a certain website excerpt labeled "grossly obsolete," to an item at the Trademark and Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Yemen, and to an excerpt from the Vietnam Investment Review...continue to full post

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