“High-touch Legal Services” Receives Federal Service Mark Registration
Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office confirmed that the service mark “High-touch Legal Services” has received Registration No. 3,726,914. The registration pertains both to legal services and to blogs that feature the law and legal matters.
The mark is on the Supplemental Register, rather than the Principal Register, because “high-touch” is descriptive of the services that I provide but has not yet acquired secondary meaning. With this registration, I have the right to use the ? symbol and to bar use of confusingly similar marks.
After five years, I can apply to have the mark moved to the Principal Register. If I were to bring an infringement suit, registration on the Principal Register would confer such benefits as (a) prima facie evidence that the registration is valid and (b) elimination of any good-faith defense.
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