New TM filing
Viacom is applying to register this mark for Comedy Central's entertainment/television broadcasting services. Review question: how to analyze this in light of the existence of the common (c) symbol, as well as the Creative Commons symbol? Also, it's an ITU--appropriate?
HT: Gena Feist.
Weird. I would think this is sufficiently close to the copyright symbol that it's not likely to be perceived as a mark. Which suggests to me (at least) that it shouldn't be allowed as an ITU because some evidence of source association should be required.
ReplyDeleteFirst thing I thought of was the graphic shown during the opening montage at the movie theater--the outline of the reel to reel movie camera spitting out today's feature presentation. I'm sure there's a more descriptive term that I'm not thinking of. Hopefully my description is good enough.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine ever looking at that and thinking of Viacom.