Legal Opinion
In Re Dr Pepper Company
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided December 24, 1987No. 86-1691PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NIES, Circuit Judge.
Dr Pepper Company appeals from the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, 1 USPQ2d 1421 (TTAB 1986), affirming the examining attorney’s refusal to register the mark PEPPER MAN as a service mark on the ground that applicant’s asserted service of sponsoring and operating a particular contest to promote its soft drinks was not a service within the contemplation of sections 3 and 45 of the Trademark Act of 1946, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1053 and 1127 (1982 & Supp. Ill 1985). We affirm.
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Appellant filed an application, Serial No. 477,600, seeking…
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