Better rename the rethink(ip) “podcast”
Marty Schwimmer points out that someone has filed a trademark application seeking registration of the trademark PODCAST on "online prerecorded radio program over the internet." No, I am not making this up. Hey, if Al Gore can invent the Internet, why can’t an Intent-To-Use trademark application be filed on PODCAST?
Annoyed? Here’s what you can do. Send a letter to: Office of the Assistant Commissioner of Trademarks, Administrator for Trademark Classification and Practice, P.O. Box 1451, Alexandria, VA 22313-1451. Label said letter a "LETTER OF PROTEST" and enclose "evidence of genericness*" If such evidence is proper, it will be forwarded to the Examining Attorney assigned to the case for use in rejecting the trademark application.
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*Evidence of genericness "should be objective, independent, factual evidence…[not]…[p]ersonal opinions [that] are subjective and may be self-serving…") showing that a podcast is a "online prerecorded radio program over the internet." [Via TMEP 1715 et seq.]