In Monday's case, the court will consider whether a company can get a federal trademark by tacking on the .com domain name to a common word. The hotel reservation site Booking.com says the answer ought to be yes, if enough people think of it as a distinctive brand name.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office turned down Booking.com’s application for a trademark, saying the term was generic, the very opposite of a trademark. The government rejected similar requests to grant protection to Hotels.com and Lawyers.com. But lower federal courts said that was wrong. They found that nearly 75 percent of respondents in a survey considered Booking.com to be a distinctive brand name."The addition of .
But Booking.com said many companies with generic names have been granted trademark protection, including The Container Store, Waffle House, and The Wig Company. The trademark office"even registered COOKING.COM, but the government now insists BOOKING.COM is a bridge too far. This is nonsense."
Get Trump to disclose his taxes so this liar, crook and draft dodging Russian asset and a Putin puppet and Traitor is exposed!
RBG on Zoom please.
How F’d would that be if a faithless elector decided the election.
ShawnRobb3 Mark the calender.
Biden is the next president, y is this even relevant now? Seriously
So would a trademark to prevent someone from having
Transparent presidents would t hide their tax returns. We should just get rid of the dumb electoral college and then we don’t need to hear this case. End rant.
they could've handled those cases by arguing about them on twitter
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