( May 22, 2025, 1:43 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 21 affirmed the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s rejection of a proposed trademark on the French word for clothing, agreeing with both the trademark examiner and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) that the marks were generic as defined in the Lanham Act as per the doctrine of foreign equivalents....