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TTABlog Test Time: So You Think You Know Genericness?

At her Property, intangible blog, Pamela Chestek here invites readers to participate in a genericness survey (Teflon-style) regarding ice cream designations/terms/names/marks. Do you think you know genericness when you see it? Ok. Explain the difference between the In re Gould test and the American Fertility test. All set? Then take this quiz: which of the follow ten terms were found by the Board to be generic? Good luck. You'll need it.THE BEEF JERKY OUTLET for "retail services featuring meat products." In re American Food Co., Serial Number 76101362 (September 29, 2004).LENS for "retail store services featuring contact eyewear products rendered via a global computer network."In re Lens.com, Inc., 83 USPQ2d 1444 (TTAB 2007). VIRUSSCAN for computer software for protecting and securing the integrity of data, computer software, and computers and computer networks...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).