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TTAB Finds Religious Habit Not Registrable: Lacks Distinctiveness, Inherent or Acquired.

Two feuding religious organizations faced off before the TTAB in the latest of a "series of battles" between them, this dispute involving the registrability of the religious habit design shown immediately below, for "clothing, namely [a] ceremonial habit worn by distinguished religious representatives in certain ceremonies" and for "promoting public awareness of the need for healthy and religions families in the United States." The Board found the habit design neither inherently distinctive nor possessed of acquired distinctiveness, and so it sustained the opposition. Mary Queen of the Third Millennium, Inc. v. The Foundation for a Christian Civilization, Inc., Opposition No. 91157073 (March 25, 2009) [not precedential].The Board first addressed the issue of standing...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on April 07, 2009 (boomark / email).