TTAB Cancels Registration For Gun Barrel Trade Dress On Grounds Of Functionality | Fox Rothschild LLP
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On May 20, 2021, the TTAB issued a lengthy and comprehensive precedential opinion canceling Proof Research, Inc.’s registration for the trade dress of a gun barrel (as shown below) on grounds of de jure functionality under Section 2(e)(5). The registered trade dress “consists of trade dress applied to gun barrels formed with a mottled pattern of irregularly-sized, rippled patches, resembling a quilt having striated patches of varying shapes and reflectivity depending on the ambient light source and viewing angle.” Petitioner ...
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