[E-trademarks] E-trademarks Digest, Vol 16, Issue 25

[Diane Gardner]

But Kevin, the retail services (regardless of whose goods are being sold) are provided to retail shoppers, a.k.a. "others."

If I cannot silently include the words "for others" after a proposed identification, it usually isn't a registrable service. For example, my pharma clients often propose reciting some kind of in-house research activities. But those activities are not offered to third parties, they simply support the in-house development of the eventual goods that will be recited/branded.

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Diane L. Gardner
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:44:53 +0000
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Interesting that the PTO doesn?t consider the licensing of one?s own IP to be ?licensing of intellectual property,? but one can register ?retail store services? (particularly online ones) when the only products sold are the mark owner?s.


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