The Federal Circuit affirmed a refusal to register CHESTEK LEGAL because the applicant used a P.O. box rather than a domicile address — and in doing so treated the USPTO's domicile rule as a procedural rule exempt from notice-and-comment.
The Federal Circuit reverses a genericness refusal but affirms that a highly descriptive domain-name mark failed to prove the heightened acquired distinctiveness it needed under Section 2(f).
The Federal Circuit affirms that CHURRASCOS is generic for restaurant services and that owning a prior registration does not insulate a later application from a genericness refusal.
The Supreme Court holds that a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board likelihood-of-confusion ruling can bind a federal court in later infringement litigation.
