Legal Opinion
In Re Loew's Theatres, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided August 9, 1985No. Appeal 85-888PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NIES, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board sustaining a refusal to register the mark DURAN-GO for chewing tobacco. The board held that the subject mark was unregistrable under § 2(e)(2) of the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. § 1052(e)(2)), which bars registration of a mark which is “primarily geographically deceptively misdescriptive” of the goods to which it is applied. We affirm.
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Background
The subject of this appeal is Application Serial No. 341,663, filed on December 14, 1981, in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) by Loew’s Theatres, Inc.,…
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