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Generic.com Trademarks: USPTO v. Booking.com By Kristen D. Brooks Intellectual Property, March 2021 Generic terms coupled with generic top-level domains, such as .com, .net, or .org, are not per se generic, the Supreme Court holds in USPTO v. Booking.com. What is determinative is the perception of the prospective purchaser, an empirical question.

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