Legal Opinion
In Re Omaha National Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 20, 1987No. Appeal 86-1567PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NIES, Circuit Judge.
Omaha National Bank appeals from the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, refusing to register, as a service mark for banking services, the following mark shown in application Serial No. 467,425, filed February 27, 1984:
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The board held that the word “FirsTier” in appellant’s asserted mark is the phonetic equivalent of “first tier,” a term which is merely descriptive of banking services and, thus, was unregistrable on the Principal Register under section 2(e)(1) of the Lan-ham Act, 15 U.S.C. §…
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