Best of 2008: Tackiness not grounds for refusal to register
Ron ColemanOtherwise, why would John Welch be reporting this appeal?: December 4, 2008 – 10 AM: In re Chippendales USA, LLC, Serial No. 78666598
Chippendales cuffs-and-collar TM “distinctiveness” claim goes “gently” into that dark night
Reuters reports on a high-class trademark story I’ve been following since my own dancing days: The male erotic dancer company Chippendales stumbled on Friday when an appeals court ruled that…
Chippendales shimmies up to the Circuit
Hot (if unlike LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® you go for that sort of thing) off the presses — here’s the appellate brief in the Chippendale’s appeal of the Trademark Trial and…
Tackiness not grounds for refusal to register
Ron ColemanOtherwise, why would John Welch be reporting this appeal?: December 4, 2008 – 10 AM: In re Chippendales USA, LLC, Serial No. 78666598