Decisions · 87639750
In re County of Orange
Serial No. 87639750 · Decided 2022-08-04 · Other
What happened
The Board likewise refused the County’s park ranger badge design: because the badge contains the County’s circular insignia in its entirety, the same federal bar on registering municipal insignia applies to it.
The marks
Applicant
The "Badge Mark" (design mark): "a circle with the image of three oranges in front of an orange grove and snow-covered mountains with the words 'COUNTY OF ORANGE' in an arc above the circle and the word 'CALIFORNIA' below the circle. Above the circle in a banner are the words 'PARK RANGER' and below the circle are the words 'PARKS-BEACHES' inside of a banner. All of the aforementioned is inside of a badge shape with the encompassed wording and design superimposed over a half wreath. Inside of the bottom of the shield shape is a geometric shape and at the top of the shield shape are multiple connected quadrilaterals"; color not claimed; "PARK RANGER PARKS-BEACHES COUNTY OF ORANGE CALIFORNIA" disclaimed; the Badge Mark incorporates the Circular Mark of Serial No. 87419378 in its entirety
Services in International Classes 35 and 41 which, per the opinion, are "similar to those identified in Classes 35 and 41 in the application to register the Circular Mark" (the opinion does not reproduce the full identification)
Why this decision is significant
Cluster companion — the park ranger badge is barred because it ‘comprises’ the Circular Mark insignia in its entirety; also illustrates evidence timeliness differences between cluster records.
Research significance is Trademark Valet's editorial rating of how useful a decision is to practitioners. It is not a statement of precedential weight — that is the separate Precedential field, which comes from the Board.
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