[E-trademarks] [EXT] Must a genericy refusal be finalized?

[daniel at keganlaw.com]

Once upon a time there were cases that (c) was not equivalent to a legal circle-c, ©, copyright notice.
Now that a circle-®, ®, is generally available to Mac and Windows users, I’d think a company the
size of Epic might want the more formally correct notice.


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> On Oct 22, 2024, at 3:11 PM, Terry Carroll via E-trademarks <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024, Laura Geyer via E-trademarks wrote:
> 
>> ... than a lot of the ridiculously incapable dreck that is on the SR.
> 
> I recently had a routine visit to my physician, and afterwards got an after visit summary; or, as the app calls it, an "After Visit Summary(R)".
> 
> Sure enough, Epic Systems, the maker of the app, managed to talk its way into a registration on the supplemental register for the phrase "After Visit Summary", to describe an after-visit summary.
> https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75461615&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch
> 
> I think the circle-R should be limited to use for marks registered on the Principal Register only; perhaps marks on the Supplemental Register can be marked with a circle-poop-emoji.
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