generic-marks

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-53 Branded LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response Waived descriptive-marks federal-circuit generic-marks lanham-act principal-register trademark-descriptive trademark-descriptiveness trademark-distinctiveness trademark-generic trademark-genericness trademark-infringement trademark-law trademark-protection trademark-registration trademark-trial-and-appeal-board Whether the Federal Circuit test impermissibly categorizes 'descriptive' marks as unprotectable 'generic' marks, on the basis of the mark describing t…
18-1159 The Universal Church, Inc. v. Calvin Toellner, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1) archaic-religious-texts circuit-split civil-rights contemporary-public-perception free-speech generic-marks generic-term legal-standard public-perception religious-freedom religious-organizations standing technical-theological-usages theological-usages trademark trademark-law trademark-protection Whether religious organizations' names like The Universal Church' and 'Universal Church' can be deemed generic as a matter of law regardless of eviden…