<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I don\u2019t speak French, but at least here in Puerto Rico, \u201cla Viuda\u201d is a very common name for Veuve Clicquot champagne. As in, \u201cwhat should we order, la Viuda?\u201d Presumably, this is because at least some people understand that \u201cveuve\u201d means \u201cviuda\u201d in Spanish. Also, to me at least, the mental connection between \u201cvetements\u201d in French and \u201cvestimenta\u201d in Spanish is no more obvious than the connection between \u201cveuve\u201d in French and \u201cviuda\u201d in Spanish.</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Best regards,</div><div>Ramón</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 10, 2025, at 2:38\u202fPM, Welch, John L. via E-trademarks <e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The CAFC said this:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">\u201c[T]he word in question [VETEMENTS] is a simple and common word\u2014the word for clothing. On the other hand, \u201cwidow\u201d requires a more advanced vocabulary. This, therefore, distinguishes this case from the aspect of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Palm Bay<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>that was premised on \u201can appreciable number of purchasers [being] unlikely to be aware that VEUVE means \u2018widow\u2019\u201d in French, and therefore \u201cunlikely to translate the marks into English.\u201d<i>Palm Bay</i>, 396 F.3d at 1377 (emphasis omitted) (citation omitted).\u201d<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Do we have any French speakers out there? Is \u201cveuve\u201d an obscure word?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">PS:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Palm Bay</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was a likelihood of confusion case [not a genericness (or descriptiveness) case] in which the mark VEUVE ROYALE was found to be confusingly similar to VEUVE CLIQUOT for wine, but THE WIDOW was not confusingly similar, since consumers would not translate VEUVE as WIDOW..<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">JLW<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(46, 86, 116);"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="666" style="width: 499.5pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr style="height: 69.75pt;"><td width="66" style="width: 49.3pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0.05in 8.65pt; height: 69.75pt;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span id="cid:image002.png@01DC225F.142E7A20"><image002.png></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td width="283" style="width: 2.95in; border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: currentcolor rgb(36, 55, 69) currentcolor currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0.05in 8.65pt; height: 69.75pt;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;">John L. 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Friedman via E-trademarks<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, September 10, 2025 11:18 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jessica R. Friedman <<a href="mailto:jrfriedman@litproplaw.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">jrfriedman@litproplaw.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[E-trademarks] VETEMENTS case going up to SCOTUS<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(10, 47, 65);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(10, 47, 65);"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/world/europe/vetements-trademark-lawsuit.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/world/europe/vetements-trademark-lawsuit.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>raises a few questions for me:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(10, 47, 65);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(10, 47, 65);"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The NY Times reporter analogizes the registration of VEUVE CLIQUOT, which means \u201cwidow cliquot\u201d and refers to the company matriarch, for champagne, to the registration of VETEMENTS, which in French means clothing, for clothing. Is that an analogy the applicant has actually made, or is this just the usual ignorance of NY Times articles when it comes to IP?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(10, 47, 65);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><ol start="2" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(10, 47, 65);"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The PTO refused registration on the ground that the mark is merely descriptive and that it appears to be generic. How can it be both?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(10, 47, 65);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><ol start="3" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(10, 47, 65);"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The applicant\u2019s response to the OA included the argument that \u201cvetements\u201d referred only to clothing as a category, while they are applying to register specific items of clothing:</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: windowtext;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>\u201c</span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although the word \u201cclothing\u201d may have a relationship to an overall category of products, it is not the descriptive (nor generic) term for any specific item. A purchaser would not say they want to \u201cbuy a clothing.\u201d Further, when the mark VETEMENTS is encountered an observer would first have to undertake translation of the word, and then draw a relationship to a specific item such as a sweatshirt\u201d.</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I understand that we have to try any and every credible argument, but that one doesn\u2019t strike me as falling into that category.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></li></ol><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(10, 47, 65);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(10, 47, 65);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 51, 102);">Jessica R. 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Access to this</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">communication by anyone else is unauthorized. It</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">is prohibited and unlawful for any unintended</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">recipient to disclose, copy, distribute, or use in any</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">other way the contents of this communication or</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">any attachment thereto. If you have received this</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">communication in error, please delete it</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">immediately and notify the sender at (787) 594-</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">0481. 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