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French Trademark Office Will Not Register “PRAY FOR PARIS” Or “JE SUIS PARIS”

downloadAfter the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, the French Trademark Office received so many applications for “JE SUIS CHARLIE” that the Office issued a statement in which it warned that it would not register any of these marks. The reason given at that time by the Office was that, because of the widespread use of the slogan, it lacked distinctiveness.

We commented that it was very unusual for the Office to issue this kind of general statement,… More