Discussion of today's Booking.com US Supreme Court case

[kathy at DNRC.TECH]

Hi All,
If you are following trademark/domain name cases, today's US Supreme  
Court argument was special.  It is whether the US Trademark Office's  
rejection of booking.com as a generic term was legal.  American  
University Washington College of Law is having a discussion this  
afternoon -- including with representatives of members of this Working  
Group!

Registration link for Zoom room below.  5-6pm Eastern today.
Best, Kathy
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>
> PIJIP Presents
>
> IP at the Supreme Court Series:
>
> United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V.

> Monday, May 4, 2020
>
> 5:00-6:00pm
>

> Due to health and safety concerns, this panel discussion will take
> place online.
>
>
> REGISTER HERE<http://go2.mailengine1.com/click/fof6-1z9gbq-msso4j-99zsah85/>
>
> Featured Panelist:
> Cara Gagliano, Electronic Frontier Foundation
>
> Jake Linford, Professor, Florida State University
>
> Martin Schwimmer, Partner, Leason Ellis
>
> Rebecca Tushnet, Professor, Harvard University Law School
>
> Moderated by,
> Christine Farley, Professor, Washington College of Law
> ________________________________
>
> The case on the Supreme Court’s docket this year that the trademark
> bar is most excited about is U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v.
> Booking.com.  The case will be the first occasion for the Court to
> opine on generic marks since it decided “shredded wheat” was generic
> in  1983. And this case raises the genericness doctrine in the
> context of a domain name. Respondent Booking.com operates a website
> that allows customers to book travel and hotel accommodations. The
> U.S.P.T.O. refused registration of booking.com  finding it to be
> generic and therefore barred by the Lanham Act. The Court of Appeals
> for the Fourth Circuit ruled that Booking.com is a protectable
> trademark. Now the Supreme Court will decide if the addition of
> “.com” to an otherwise generic term can create a protectable
> trademark.
>
> ________________________________
>
> PIJIP'S IP AT THE SUPREME COURT SERIES
>
> American University Washington College of Law regularly invites
> counsel of record and counsel for selected amici to offer
> post-argument reflections in intellectual property (and related)
> cases heard by the Supreme Court. These events are held on the
> afternoon of oral argument before the Court.
>
> MORE INFORMATION ON PIJIP EVENTS
> HERE.<http://go2.mailengine1.com/click/fof6-1z9gbq-msso4k-99zsah86/>
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