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minds of consumers?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">And, of course, we typically have no idea what's actually going on in the minds of consumers.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">It seems to me the question is: 1) What do we think 2) the Trademark Office will think 3) that consumers currently think when they encounter the mark made from parts of two names?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">It's easy to say parts of names aren't names, but one could perhaps imagine a situation (depending on the chefs, and the names, and . . . everything) where a mark made from parts of two names might 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