Trademark Practice Tip: Services Must Actually be Rendered to Constitute “Use in Commerce” for Service Mark Registration

Has a service mark been used in commerce if the services have been offered but there are no takers? The Federal Circuit issued a decision earlier this year in Couture v. Playdom, Inc., 778 F.3d 1379 (Fed. Cir. 2015), which confirms that applicants seeking to continue reading...