Trademark Specimen Guide - Clothing
Class 25
Examples of generally acceptable specimens for clothing and apparel include sales hangtags, collar tags and website screen shots showing an online shopping cart option,
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Examples of unacceptable clothing specimens include pictures of the logo on the front of a t-shirt, baseball cap, sweatshirt, etc. These examples will likely be considered as "merely ornamental" by the Trademark Office Examining Attorney and thus be refused as a valid specimen. The following are examples of specimens that would likely be refused by the USPTO Examining Attorney.
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Of course, at the end of the day it is up to the USPTO examining attorney to decide what is and what is not acceptable. However, providing a specimen that is more likely to be considered acceptable from the beginning can greatly reduce the time and cost it takes to get your trademark registered.
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