Organisation: Booking.com

Local lawyers examine India's 10 most notable trademark cases from the past year.

18 January 2024

The Western District of North Carolina has drawn a hard line in the ongoing saga over the genericness of the PRETZEL CRISPS trademark, stating that no amount of commercial success would justify monopolising the common name of the product.

09 June 2021

A new study criticises widely-used methodology used on trademark survey evidence, claiming it is prone to showing only “weakly-held mistaken beliefs”, and suggests changes to “reveal the true extent of consumer uncertainty”.

08 June 2021

A whistlestop tour of US case law offers brand owners crucial pointers covering everything from generic.com marks to what constitutes useful trade dress.

11 March 2021

Apple has replaced Amazon at the top of the Brand Finance Global 500 2021 ranking of the world’s most valuable brands following a stellar 87% increase in brand value over the past year.

26 January 2021

Following the US Supreme Court’s ruling in USPTO v Booking.com BV earlier this year, the USPTO has issued new guidance on the examining procedures for ‘generic.com’ terms.

08 December 2020

In USPTO v Booking.com BV, by an eight-to-one vote, the US Supreme Court has rejected a per se rule by the USPTO that a generic word followed by ‘.com’ is necessarily generic.

24 July 2020

WTR has compiled some of the immediate responses to the SCOTUS opinion in USPTO v Booking․com that rejected that a generic word plus ‘.com’ is automatically generic. 

01 July 2020

In an 8-1 decision, the US Supreme Court has rejected the USPTO’s ‘sweeping rule’ that the combination of a generic word and ‘.com’ is automatically generic.

30 June 2020

The US Supreme Court this week made history on two counts: by conducting its first teleconference hearing and by providing a live audio feed of the session, taking the public inside the proceedings process. 

05 May 2020