US Supreme Court resumes oral arguments Monday following hiatus due to COVID-19 pandemic. 2 of the biggest cases—involving access to Pres. Trump's taxes, and whether states can constitutionally punish 'faithless electors'—will be argued on May 12 and 13.
In Monday's case, the court will consider whether a company can get a federal trademark by tacking on the .com domain name to a common word. The hotel reservation site Booking.com says the answer ought to be yes, if enough people think of it as a distinctive brand name.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office turned down Booking.com’s application for a trademark, saying the term was generic, the very opposite of a trademark. The government rejected similar requests to grant protection to Hotels.com and Lawyers.com. But lower federal courts said that was wrong. They found that nearly 75 percent of respondents in a survey considered Booking.com to be a distinctive brand name."The addition of .
But Booking.com said many companies with generic names have been granted trademark protection, including The Container Store, Waffle House, and The Wig Company. The trademark office"even registered COOKING.COM, but the government now insists BOOKING.COM is a bridge too far. This is nonsense."
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