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Links: Meta-IP Watch: Patents.com Is Not a Valid Trademark
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Monday, June 28 @ 17:20:06 EDT Trademark
The Federal Circuit has ruled that "patents.com" cannot be registered as a trademark. A Colorado law firm uses www.patents.com as its home page (complete with circa-1997 web design) and applied to the Patent and Trademark Office for a trademark. The PTO said no, on the grounds that that "patents.com" is just a description of what Oppedahl and Larson LLP provided: software for tracking patent applications. The Federal Circuit affirmed.

In meta-meta-IP news, the Federal Circuit's decision, as a work of the federal government, is not copyrightable.

 
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