Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B. V.
| Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B. V. | |
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| Argued May 4, 2020 Decided June 30, 2020 | |
| Full case name | United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. v. Booking.com B. V. |
| Docket no. | 19-46 |
| Citations | 591 U.S. ___ (more) 140 S. Ct. 2298 |
| Argument | Oral argument |
| Case history | |
| Prior | |
| Holding | |
| A term styled “generic.com” is a generic name for a class of goods or services only if the term has that meaning to consumers. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Ginsburg, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh |
| Concurrence | Sotomayor |
| Dissent | Breyer |
| Laws applied | |
| Lanham Act | |
Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B. V., 591 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the trademarkability of a generic terms appended with a top-level domain (TLD) specifier (in this case "Booking.com"). The Court ruled that such names can be trademarked unless the existing combination of term and TLD is considered to have a generic meaning to consumers.