Can a brand that combines a generic term with a top-level domain such as .com, .net, or .org, be registered and protected as a trademark? In a decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court said yes, ...
Generic terms—those words that actually name a product or service—are ineligible for trademark protection under current United States trademark law. The United States Patent and Trademark Office ...
Today, the Supreme Court held in U.S. Patent & Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V. that a generic term paired with an internet designation such as “.com” (called a “generic.com” term by the Court) ...
“One critical reason the Court put forward was consumers’ association of “Booking.com” with one source: Booking Holdings, Inc. Yet, under existing trademark law, no amount of consumer recognition can ...
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on March 16, 2020. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com raises the question whether a business can create a registrable trademark by ...
Even if a generic.com trademark owner sued a competitor whose domain name incorporated the generic term and were able to show consumer confusion, this exception could shield the competitor from ...
“The question becomes, if the addition of a TLD to a generic term cannot create a protectable trademark, who decides whether the term preceding the TLD is generic?” On November 8, the U.S. Supreme ...
Many online businesses are known and referred to by a web address comprising a top-level domain (TLD) like ".com" and a second-level domain (SLD), which is the portion of the address immediately ...
The US Patent and Trademark Office erred by finding the term booking.com was too generic for trademark protection, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. Trademark law prohibits anyone from registering ...
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