Adding ‘.Com’ To Trademark Does Not Defeat Genericness, PTO Tells Supreme Court

(August 29, 2019, 9:04 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an Aug. 21 reply brief supporting its petition for certiorari, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) argues to the U.S. Supreme Court that adding a top-level domain (TLD) to an otherwise generic term does not serve to make that trademark nongeneric and registrable (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, et al. v. Booking.com B.V., No. 19-46, U.S. Sup.)....