TTAB: wine trademark PRÊT À BOIRE not generic

pret a boire

It seems to me that a description of a characteristic of the wine that is commonly used to describe wine that is “ready to drink” should not be protectable by trademark registration. Even though the examiner in this case thought the Mark shouldn’t be registered the TTAB granted the trademark PRÊT À BOIRE to Amuse […]

Trademark Opposition to “[ ]” Dismissed

TRADEMARK OPPOSITION

The Australian company Casella Wines, the winemaker of the popular wine Yellowtail® filed a trademark application for []. Yes that’s what they did, they applied for the trademark registration for just “the brackets.” If you look at some of their images online when you search their company you will see that most often when [yellow […]