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The TTAB recently decided the appeals from three Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals summarized below. Let's see how you do with them, keeping in mind that last year the Board affirmed...
The TTAB recently decided the appeals from three Section 2(e)(1)
mere descriptiveness refusals summarized below. Let's see how
you do with them, keeping in mind that last year the Board
affirmed, by my calculation, about 93% these refusals. Answer(s)
will be found in the first comment.
In re World Economic Forum, Application
Serial No. 79249902 (July 6, 2020) [not precedential] (Opinion by
Judge Christopher Larkin). [Mere descriptiveness refusal of
4IR for publications, consulting services, social
networking services, and educational services. The Examining
Attorney maintained that 4IR is a recognized abbreviation for
"Fourth Industrial Revolution"].
In re Lifestyle Enterprises, Inc.,
Application Serial No. 87952218 (July 8, 2020) [not precedential]
(Opinion by Judge Michael B. Adlin). [Mere descriptiveness refusal
of DIVANY for "furniture," Applicant
argued, and the Board agreed, that the doctrine of foreign
equivalents did not apply.]
In re Synergy One Lending, Inc.,
Serial No. 88063190 (July 10, 2020) [not precedential] (Opinion by
Judge Thomas W. Wellington). [Mere descriptiveness refusal of
RETIREMENT FUNDING SOLUTIONS (in standard
characters) for "Financial services, namely, mortgage lending
services" [RETIREMENT FUNDING disclaimed]]. Applicant argued
that taking out a mortgage is not "funding."]
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