Reuters reported that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. Federal courts have rejected trademarks for other similar names, such as hotels.com, mattress.com and lawyers.com.
From the article:
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider a bid by a federal agency to prevent the popular hotel reservation website Booking.com, a unit of Booking Holdings Inc (BKNG.O), from trademarking the site’s name, contending that it is too generic to deserve legal protection.
The justices will hear an appeal by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of lower court decision allowing the trademark because by adding “.com” to the generic word “booking” it became eligible for a trademark.
Tip of the cap to Sarah.Kate
Who in the world thinks they can trademark the word booking it is a common english term. You have over 50,000 hotel sites that use this term and have that in the name…
I dealt with this in 1997. I was trying to trademark my generics and it was impossible. I could only get @cost on the secondary registry. Will be interesting to see how the SCOTUS rules on this one.
good and while they are at it block realtor.com and realty.com freaking vultures!!!
Fashion.com is trademarked and the person doesn’t own or control it
We are ?.com
our web address is ??.com
Looks to me it was refused?
https://trademarks.justia.com/871/67/fashion-87167340.html
Thanks !
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