Go here http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm and click Search on the right. Repeat for every country in the world. You'll probably find it isn't because most of the time common dictionary phrases cannot be trademarked.
My understanding is that words used as adjectives can be TM. Nouns can not. Restaurant can not. Pizza Hut Restaurant can be. Pizza Hut serves as an adjective to the noun restaurant. Check the way the big boys with the fancy lawyers use their TMs. At least a few times per year or in the fine print everytime they will use it in the full form. Stick any non-trademarked name in front of casino and you can use or TM that.
One word casino no it's a generic word Two word "Casino 123" can be trademarked If the casino is within the url check together with the second word if there is any trademark
"Casino" as one word only in the URL - there is not a second word or letter or number - is not trademarked ?
It's impossible to trademark a pure generic like this. ie., you can't TM food, drink, domain, and so on.
Then can you explain this? I don't know what's the "trend" for trademark applications for dictionary words used arbitrarily (hint). I'll see if I can check with some attorneys I know.
If USPTO allows every word to be trademarked, it would cost me $1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000+ to post this reply. I would just have to pay for every single word, or even any character that composes this paragraph.
Which they don't, especially if the applicants don't meet the requirements in a timely manner. Look at this one: Then note its current status based on the link below: http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=79023534 If it means anything to anyone here, they aren't stupid enough to just stamp "(R)" on the application just like that. There are rules and laws they have to follow. Time will tell whether the one I posted above will eventually be given such or not.
Who said "CATERPILLAR" is a generic word The same applies for "JEEP" The fact that we use these words in our daily conversations doesn't make them generic
So shell is generic for oil products? Is delta generic for airlines? Is windows generic for software applications? I could go on and on. But are you sure you know WTF you're saying?
I think we lost focus We're talking about "casino" here The rule is that generic words are not trademarked and in many cases are not allowed to be trademarked because they create confusion to the market There exceptions to the rule as the ones davezan said and possibly many others
Now that's better. Sorry for the outburst. However, there might be a problem: Note there isn't any disclaimer on that one, unlike the others. New registered, too.