Precedential No. 1 - TTAB Re-designates Decision: DANKE Not Confusable with MERCI for Chocolates

On January 27th, the Board re-designated as precedential its opinion in the DANKE/MERCI opposition, in which it concluded that DANKE (Stylized) is not confusable with MERCI for chocolate, despite their identical meaning in English. The original TTABlog post may be found here. Perhaps some of the comments to that blog post, including one by Professor McCarthy, played a role in the Board's re-assessment of the opinion.

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