[E-trademarks] WTF TTAB - MENSTRUATION CRUSTACEAN is descriptive?

[Tushnet, Rebecca]

I think it's descriptive of these particular goods, just as Mardi Gras bead dogs were descriptive for jewelry. https://tushnet.blogspot.com/2015/04/no-dog-in-this-fight-pto-makes.html

Rebecca Tushnet
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Subject: Re: [E-trademarks] WTF TTAB - MENSTRUATION CRUSTACEAN is descriptive?


I am assuming that the real or imagined descriptiveness is along these lines:

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On 2/12/2024 11:53 AM, Lara Pearson via E-trademarks wrote:
The TTAB found MENSTRUATION CRUSTACEAN --  in standard characters -- descriptive of heating pads . . .


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because the thing is shaped like a lobster and thus the word mark describes a feature of the product?!?!

Sounds fishy to me.

I wonder if the applicant will appeal to the Fed Circuit. I hope so.

Happy work week!

Lara Pearson, Esq.
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