The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential trademark decision Tuesday affirming the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (TTAB) dismissal of an opposition to registration of the marks iVoters and iVoters.com, while also indicating the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) might want to reconsider its decision to allow registration of those marks. The opposition was brought by Heritage Alliance, which has been using the marks iVoterGuide and iVoterGuide.com since about 2008 but does not have a registration for them. The American Policy Roundtable (APR) filed for registration of its “iVoters” marks in January 2019 and they were published in the Trademark Official Gazette in May 2019.
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