Maria Cramer, The Boston Globe; Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your trademark restrictions
"Companies pay the Patent and Trademark Office a small fee to register
for a trademark, and generally it is not unusual for trademark
applications to go unchallenged, said Jennifer Rothman, a law professor
at Loyola Law School in California who teaches trademark law and is not
connected to the case.
“The Patent and Trademark Office doesn’t
have a lot of time to review these things,” Rothman said. “If no one
opposes it, they approve it.”
Some companies take advantage of the
less-than-robust screening process to snap up well-known names, then
file complaints against businesses that have used the names for their
products to leverage payments, Rothman said."
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