TTAB Decision Tracker: Surname

Summary

This tracker summarizes precedential Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and Federal Circuit decisions that address whether a mark is primarily merely a surname. Precedential decisions finding marks to be primarily merely a surname, and those finding marks not to be primarily merely a surname, are listed in reverse chronological order with key details noted including the case name, the mark(s) at issue, the relevant goods and services (including class numbers), and a case description that focuses on the surname aspect of the ruling.