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Trademark Application Acquired Distinctiveness Color Marks

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What’s Trending in Trademarks, February 2024: Fruity Pebbles Denied Color Mark, Captain Cannabis Cancellation, Trader Joe’s vs....

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Every month, Erise’s trademark attorneys review the latest developments at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in the courts, and across the corporate world to bring you the stories that you should know about: Fruity...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - January 2021

[co-author: Joseph Diorio, Law Clerk] The January 2021 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter discusses: a recent non-precedential TTAB decision on background designs; the Trademark Modernization Act;...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Registration of Color Trademarks on Product Packaging: The TTAB Lays Down Some Black and White Rules

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Obtaining trademark registration for color trademarks can be a complicated undertaking. In a recent precedential opinion, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in In re Forney Industries, Inc. weighed in on the registrability...more

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Cheerios Yellow Box Rejected For Trademark Registration

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In a precedential decision on August 22 2017, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) in In re General Mills IP Holdings II, LLC (Serial 86757390) held that the applicant did not provide sufficient evidence to support the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

The Cheerios Challenge of Registering Color Marks

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The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) delivered a primer on demonstrating the acquired distinctiveness of product packaging or trade dress, including color marks, in refusing registration of a trademark application for...more

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