Booking said Wednesday that adopting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s argument to the contrary would threaten “hundreds” of trademarks that the PTO has been registering for “decades,” including Waffle House, Office Depot, TV Guide, and generic.com marks like Ancestry.com, Weather.com, and Law.com.
The PTO and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board rejected Booking’s attempt to register a trademark for “Booking.com,” finding it generic. But the U.S. Court of ...