Legal Opinion
In Re Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith, Inc
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 17, 1987No. 86-1080PublishedCited by 147 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
The Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, acting through the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Board), refused registration of the term CASH MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT on the Principal Register as a service mark for “stock brokerage services, administration of money market fund services, and providing loans against securities services”, Application Serial No. 254,-808. In re Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., 230 USPQ 128 (TTAB 1986).
The Board held that CASH MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT is a common descriptive or generic name for these financial services, such that…
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