In Re Reed Elsevier Properties

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• holding that LAWYERS.COM is generic for services provided by lawyers for “providing an online interactive database featuring information exchange in the fields of law, legal news, and legal services” encompasses the generic services provided by lawyers
• affirming that LAWYERS.COM is generic where lawyers were an “integral, if not the paramount, aspect” of the information services provided on the website
• stating that a court may also examine “purchaser testimony, consumer surveys, dictionary definitions, trade journals, newspapers, and other publications”
• avoiding the word “lawyers” in the identification 16 Dec. 4, 2014 Office action. -8- Serial No. 86362968 of services
• affirming this tribunal’s finding that applicant’s provision of information regarding the law, legal news and legal services necessarily includes providing information about lawyers notwithstanding applicant’s deletion of those services from its recitation.
• \third-party websites are competent sources to show what the relevant public would understand a term to mean\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).