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<p><font face="Tahoma">Don't you have to prove fraud? </font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">Regards,</font></p>
<p><font face="Tahoma">Tony <br>
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IP Business Law, Inc.<br>
320 via Pasqual<br>
Redondo Beach, CA 90277<br>
(310)377-5171<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/29/2025 10:29 AM, Jessica R.
Friedman via E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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(Hypothetical) My client wants to register BROWN PREMIER for
financial advisory services. There is a Principal registration
on the books for PREMIER FINANCIAL. \u201cPremier\u201d clearly is
laudatory; it\u2019s even one of the examples that the TMEP gives of
laudatory marks. At the time of application, the applicant had
been using it for only three years, so there no presumption
created by five years of use. So, it seems that this was a
completely descriptive mark. But the PTO didn\u2019t object under
Section 2(e) or ask for evidence of secondary meaning. It simply
suggested that the applicant disclaim the word FINANCIAL, which
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If this registration for PREMIER FINANCIAL is cited against an
application to register BROWN PREMIER, I\u2019d like to argue that
the existing registration shouldn\u2019t have been granted because
the mark was merely descriptive and had not acquired
distinctiveness. But now PREMIER FINANCIAL has been in use for
20 years. Let\u2019s assume that now it is distinctive. Does that
fact preclude me from arguing successfully that the registration
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