15 U.S.C. §1114, also known as §32 of the Lanham Act, defines infringement of a registered trademark, service mark, collective or certification mark …
Trademarks
How are Donuts and Coffee Confusingly Similar under Section 2(d)?
A trademark is any device that is used in commerce to identify and distinguish their goods and to indicate the source of those goods. The Lanham Act protects …
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Lessons from the North Carolina Lottery – Merely Descriptive Refusals
Earlier this month the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that a trademark applied for by the North Carolina Lottery, a state agency that has been …
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