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"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, so that I may climb thy golden stair . . ." Almost everyone is familiar with the childhood fairy tale "Rapunzel."

The Board sustained an opposition to registration of the mark DANA DESIGN in the form shown below, for backpacks, hiking equipment, tents, and related goods, on the ground that the mark comprises the name of a living individual, Dana Gleason, without his consent.