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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will deny an application for federal trademark registration if the trademark is “likely to cause confusion” with a prior registration. This inquiry mainly boils down to whether the marks and associated goods or services are sufficiently similar that ordinary consumers would mistakenly believe that the applicant’s goods or services come from the registrant, or vice-versa.

There are strategies that can minimize the chance of drawing this objection. For one thing, you can be smart in describing your goods or services. Describing them in narrow terms can avoid an appearance of being closer to a prior filing than you need to be. That sometimes works.


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