HUMANOIDS GROUP v. ROGAN

No. 03-1896.

375 F.3d 301 (2004)

HUMANOIDS GROUP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James E. ROGAN, Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: July 20, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Mark Lebow, Young & Thompson, Arlington, Virginia, for Appellant. C. Edward Polk, Jr., Associate Solicitor, United States Patent & Trademark Office, Arlington, Virginia, for Appellee.

ON BRIEF: Thomas W. Perkins, Young & Thompson, Arlington, Virginia, for Appellant. Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney, Dennis E. Szybala, Assistant United States Attorney, Office Of The United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia; John M. Whealan, Solicitor, Cynthia C. Lynch, Associate Solicitor, Arlington, Virginia, for Appellee.

Before MOTZ and KING, Circuit Judges, and DAVID R. HANSEN, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.


Affirmed in part and dismissed in part by published opinion. Judge MOTZ wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and Senior Judge HANSEN joined.

OPINION

DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we consider whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office may reject an application to register a trademark because the application contains multiple marks. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that it may. Accordingly, except for the appeal...

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