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Precedential No. 22: Finding a (2)(a) False Connection, TTAB Cancels "TWIGGY" Registration for Clothing

By John L. Welch

Finding that, at the time of Respondent's trademark registration in 2000, the mark TWIGGY pointed uniquely to Petitioner Lesley Hornby a/k/a Twiggy, the Board granted her Section 2(a) petition for cancellation of Respondent's registration for the mark TWIGGY for "clothing, namely, children's pants, tops, slacks, skirts, vests, sweaters, shirts and blouses." The Board denied Respondent TJX's laches defense and also dismissed Petitioner's Section 2(d), dilution, and fraud claims. Lesley Hornby a/k/a Lesley Lawson a/k/a Twiggy v. TJX Companies, Inc., Cancellation No. 92044369 (April 22, 2008) [precedential].TwiggyThe Board found that Twiggy was not only an international sensation in the 1960s, but that through her various entertainment activities and promotional efforts, she has "built on the extraordinary initial reputation and celebrity" so that she and her name Twiggy "had sufficient fame and reputation in 1999 and 2000" that "purchasers of children's clothing would, upon seeing the mark TWIGGY on such goods, presume an association with her...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).