Legal Opinion
In Re Thrifty, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided December 13, 2001No. 01-1111PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LINN, Circuit Judge.
Thrifty appeals the decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) sustaining the Examining Attorney’s refusal to register the mark proposed in its service mark application. See In re Thrifty, Inc., Ser. No. 75/193,074, 2000 TTAB LEXIS 604 (Aug. 30, 2000). Because substantial evidence supports the TTAB’s finding that Thrifty failed to provide an acceptable description of the mark in its application, we affirm.
BACKGROUND
Thrifty filed an application for service mark on October 31, 1996. The application initially describes the mark as “the color Blue,” used in…
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