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TTAB Confirms Characters Can Be Registered as Trademarks If The Characters Function as Trademarks

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By Felicia Boyd (US) on September 11, 2023

In a precedential decision the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) affirmed a refusal to register a character featured in a video game on the grounds that the proposed design mark failed to function as a trademark. In re Joseph…

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