In Re Polar Music International Ab

KASHIWA, Circuit Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal from decisions of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (hereinafter board) sustaining the trademark examining attorney’s refusals of two applications by appellant for registration on the principal register. It raises the issue whether the name and portrait of a musical group function as trademarks on sound recordings under the facts of this case. We hold that the specimens submitted to the Patent and Trademark Office fully evidence the trademark usage of the name of the musical group “ABBA” on such goods. We hold, however, that the portrait…