In Re Oppedahl & Larson LLP

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the addition of a top-level domain to an otherwise unregistrable mark does not typically add any source-identifying significance
• a proposed mark “may be merely descriptive even if it does not describe the ‘full scope and extent’ of the applicant’s [services]… .”
• “The Board must, of course, determine the commercial impression of a mark in the proper context of the goods or services associated with that mark.”
• “[A] mark may be merely descriptive even if it does not describe the ‘full scope and extent’ of the applicant’s goods or services.”
• PATENTS.COM merely descriptive of computer software for managing a database of records that could include patents and for tracking the status of the records by means of the Internet
• “In considering a mark as a whole, the Board weighs the individual components of the mark to determine the overall impression or the descriptiveness of the mark and its various components.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).