Lowering the Bar: February 2007
Earlier this week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office informed Alexandre Batlle that it would not register the proposed trademark “OBAMA BIN LADEN,” which of course conflates the names of presidential candidate “Barack Obama” and non-presidential-candidate “Osama bin Laden.” Batlle had hoped to use the trademark to market t-shirts, et al.
Filed under: 2007 Trademark Cases, Trademark
