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What Marks are improperly descriptive?

For the purposes of federal registration, a Mark is improperly descriptive if it is:

  • primarily merely descriptive of the goods/services;
  • deceptively misdescriptive of the goods/services;
  • primarily geographically descriptive of the goods/services;
  • primarily geographically deceptively misdescriptive of the goods/services;
  • primarily merely a surname; or
  • ornamental.
 
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