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Test Your TTAB Judge-Ability: Are "CORVOLTTE" and "CORVETTE" Confusingly Similar for Automobiles?

Pro se Applicant Jim M. Sweeney sought to register the mark CORVOLTTE for "electric vehicles, namely, automobiles," but General Motors opposed, claiming likelihood of confusion with its mark CORVETTE for automobiles. GM failed to provide proof of the fame of its mark and also failed to submit properly its registration for CORVETTE for automobiles. Guess who won? General Motors LLC v. Jim M. Sweeney, Opposition No. 91188584 (December 10, 2010) [not precedential].GM, but apparently only with the help of a partial bail-out from Applicant Sweeney, who admitted in his answer that GM owns the registration for CORVETTE for automobiles and that GM has used the mark since 1952.GM did manage to get several registrations into evidence via the status-and-title route, but not its "most relevant registration," the one for automobiles...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on December 21, 2010 (boomark / email).