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How to describe a Catch 22

By Ronald D. Coleman, Esq.

Michael Hall considers the PTO’s “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” policy on trademark registrations used as evidence to refuse new applications on the basis of “descriptiveness”: [T]he Office routinely relies upon them in issuing merely-descriptive refusals, yet when an applicant introduces third-party registrations to support its position, the Office will often dismiss them with a [...]

Full post as published by Likelihood of Confusion on April 02, 2009 (boomark / email).