How to describe a Catch 22

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® 2025-11-11

Summary:

Originally posted 2014-05-29 01:48:46. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMichael Hall considers the PTO’s “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” policy, by which it uses trademark registrations 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 […]

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descriptiveness

Authors:

Ron Coleman

Date tagged:

11/11/2025, 22:03

Date published:

11/10/2025, 23:19