Trademark Law Alert: Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Finds SMART KEYBOARD to Be Generic

In a nonprecedential opinion issued on January 12, 2021, the US Patent & Trademark Office’s (“PTO”) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) found the proposed trademark SMART KEYBOARD to be generic. See In re Apple Inc., US Trademark App. Ser. No. 86/857,587 (TTAB decision issued on Jan. 12, 2021). Unless this decision is appealed, as […]