When you hear the word “gruyere,” what comes to mind? A bucolic region in the mountains of Switzerland? Perhaps the Gruyère region of neighboring France? Or, more likely, you think of a type of cheese ...

In June 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a rule that the combination of a generic term and a generic top-level domain (“gTLD”) is per se generic. See USPTO v. Booking.com B.V., 140 S. Ct. 2298 ...

When a complainant initiates a UDRP procedure against a domain name that contains a generic or dictionary term, it is easy to assume that the complaint was brought in bad faith. However, several UDRP ...

Why are generic terms so valuable? Whether it is in search or domain names, a generic word carries immense opportunity since it often defines categories of information, products and experiences.

In In re Hotels.com LP, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held that the TTAB had properly rejected an application for the registration of the trademark HOTELS.COM on the grounds that ...

Fig 7. Trends in the top 10 combined terms in the Google Books corpus. A new survey of nearly 340,000 texts spanning 79 years shows that generic terms in mental health have shifted away from words ...