DavidPontious: First SCOTUS opinion of the day: Patent and Trademark Office v. https://t.co/eLG9v3qs4y B. V. "Held: A term styled "https://t.co/czwS6ER4wp" is a generic name for a class of goods or services only if the term has that meaning to consumers." https://t.co/m3w1y4X6lA
eKonk:My question: Let's say the company decides to no longer pay for the url. Can they use their trademark to prevent someone else from using it?
I think that'd be a call by WIPO, but so long as they keep paying for the registration, they own it (unless they stop using it altogether -- I think there's some WIPO rules about squatting "just because", but it's been a long time since I read up on it)
Makes sense to me. You obviously can't trademark just "Booking", but if you can trademark something like Booking&Co. then you can obviously trademark Booking.com.
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I've been telling clients that for a long time.
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wetrat: But can they trademark "Booking.yeah"?
or "Booking.YoMama"
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The Fark headline did.
Thanks, Fark.com™!
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bhcompy: This seems like a common sense decision. Good to see something the bulk of the court agrees on
I said this over in the other SCOTUS one, but in general SCOTUS rulings are pretty lopsided. They don't make the news as much, though.
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eKonk: My question: Let's say the company decides to no longer pay for the url. Can they use their trademark to prevent someone else from using it?
I think that'd be a call by WIPO, but so long as they keep paying for the registration, they own it (unless they stop using it altogether -- I think there's some WIPO rules about squatting "just because", but it's been a long time since I read up on it)
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Peter Weyland: bhcompy: This seems like a common sense decision. Good to see something the bulk of the court agrees on
I said this over in the other SCOTUS one, but in general SCOTUS rulings are pretty lopsided. They don't make the news as much, though.
The 95% of cases they don't take are almost always because they agree.
/they only deny a few because they want to procrastinate
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dbirchall: The legal beagle's tweet didn't make it clear who actually won.
The Fark headline did.
Thanks, Fark.com™!
Yeah I had google what happened and read an actual news article.
Twitter isn't always helpful
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