USPTO v. Booking.com is an appeal from the USPTO and TTAB’s rejecting registration of the mark BOOKING.COM. As many readers may know — and therein lies the reason for the decision discussed here — Booking.com is an online service that, not surprisingly, facilitates making reservations for flights and hotel rooms. The applicant submitted BOOKING.COM to the…
Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc., et al. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. is a Supreme Court case centering on the idea of defense preclusion — or, more accurately, avoiding the issue of defense preclusion. In this case, the appellant wanted to argue that Marcel Fashions Group (Marcel) could not raise a defense that it could have raised in one of two…