Webinar: Trademark Registration: Overcoming Failure-to-Function Refusals, Meeting Use and Distinctiveness Requirements

Professor Alexandra J. Roberts’  - associate NHU professor and Franklin Pierce Faculty Fellow will be a panelist for an upcoming Strafford CLE webinar on the topic entitled “Trademark Registration: Overcoming Failure-to-Function Refusals, Meeting Use and Distinctiveness Requirements”. 

This CLE webinar will guide IP counsel on avoiding or overcoming potential roadblocks to trademark registration for failure to function under the Lanham Act. The panel will discuss the use and distinctiveness requirements and how the USPTO and courts have treated the issue. The panel will also provide best practices for overcoming failure-to-function refusals.

Find out more about the event here.

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

• What are the critical considerations for trademark counsel when responding to a refusal?
• What steps can counsel take to avoid having a trademark application rejected by the USPTO because it is does not function as a mark?
• What strategies should counsel implement to increase the likelihood of mark registration after a refusal?

Alumni and friends of UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law can register for the webinar for 50% off by using this link.