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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Client sells lingerie, each item of which is cleverly packaged to resemble a rose on a stem, under the
mark PANTYROSE BOUQUET. There is no such thing as a PANTYROSE and the word BOUQUET does not describe lingerie. But the examiner has rejected the application, saying,
</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">These words merely describe applicants lingerie in that they are underpants for women packaged decoratively to resemble
a medley of roses, but is [sic] instead a medley of lingerie.[?] Moreover, applicants specimen clearly shows that its lingerie is packaged
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#163E64">A mark is merely descriptive if it describes an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose or use of an applicants
<b><i>goods or services </i></b>(and the examiner actually cites this rule).<b><i>
</i></b>Is there some rule that I have just never heard of that says that a mark is descriptive if it describes a products creative
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003366">Jessica R. Friedman</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003366">Attorney at Law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003366">300 East 59 Street, Ste. 2406<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003366">New York, NY 10022</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003366">Phone: 212-220-0900</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003366">Cell: 917-647-1884</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#003366">E-mail:</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue"> <u><a href="mailto:jrfriedman@litproplaw.com" title="mailto:jrfriedman@litproplaw.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">jrfriedman@litproplaw.com</span></a></u></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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