Snap Files Lawsuit After Yearslong Effort to Trademark ‘Spectacles’

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Snap Files Lawsuit After Yearslong Effort to Trademark ‘Spectacles’
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Snap, the parent company of the social-media app Snapchat, has sued the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office over its rejection to trademark the word “spectacles” for the company’s wearable smart glasses

Snap Inc., the parent company of the social-media app Snapchat, has sued the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office over its rejection to trademark the word “spectacles” for the company’s wearable smart glasses.

The complaint comes after a November opinion by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO said that the word “spectacles” is generic, and that Snap “has not acquired distinctiveness” to qualify for a trademark of the word.

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