Celebrities and companies will trademark anything, but some are particularly unusual. Business Insider mapped out some of the strangest and most famous examples with the help of The Chartered ...

A trademark can be a name, word, phrase, symbol design or picture. Here are some other unusual or unexpected examples of things that have become trademarks... Taking a photo or video of the Eiffel ...

The best example on the market is the ... so long as a purported trademark holder can establish that when consumers hear their unique audible sound they associate it with that company’s goods ...

There's an unusual fight underway in Michigan over ... But the state disagrees, and the trademark dispute is now in federal court. The M-22 highway in northern Michigan is considered one of ...

Ohio State University has failed to trademark the word "the," with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday, turning down its application to claim the three-letter definite article as its ...

Trademarks can take many forms, including words, names, shapes, patterns and colours. One unusual example of a colour trademark is Louboutin’s famous red outsole. Registering unusual marks like ...

For color marks in particular, trademark protection may be denied if the color indicates a characteristic of the good or service, such as its size, strength or capacity. Below are some examples ...

Examples of generic ... transitions from being a unique identifier to being used to cover an entire class of goods or services. It has long been the case that generic trademarks are ineligible ...

A U.S. government agency has rejected a trademark application by Donald Trump's Truth Social because the social network's name isn't unique enough. In a filing from August 2, the U.S. Patent and ...

For example, several dozen VS clients have received approval of their marks from the USPTO. State trademark registrations and common law trademark rights may be available for cannabis brands in ...