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Posts from July 2020.

July 28, 2020 - By William Borchard

Filled shot glass in front of agave plant

Certification marks differ from trademarks and service marks, but they are protected against uses of identical or confusingly similar terms just like trademarks and service marks.

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Take Care When a Subsidiary Owns a Trademark Used Only by its Parent Company
How to Succeed in Registering a Product Configuration Trademark in the U.S.
A Term Used Solely as a Trade Name is Unregistrable as a Trademark in the U.S.
Adding a Word or Distinctive Design to a Mark Sometimes Can Avoid a Likelihood of Confusion
How to Cancel a U.S. Trademark Registration for Abandonment
How to Overcome a Trademark Application Refusal When the Identical Mark is Registered for Different Goods or Services -- Part 2
How to Overcome a Trademark Application’s Refusal When the Identical Mark was Registered for Different Goods or Services
Doctrine of Foreign Equivalents May Not Apply to Marks Combining English and Non-English Words
Musical Notes Played Over Retail Store Speakers Held a Registrable Trademark Used in a Display Associated with the Goods
Refuting a “Failure to Function” Refusal to Register a Trademark

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