USPTO denies Tom Brady's trademark application

By Ferraiuoli LLC

USPTO denies Tom Brady's trademark application
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) denied Tom Brady’s application to trademark Tom Terrific, arguing that it includes matter which may falsely suggest a connection with Tom Seaver.

Brady, an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL), has been known as Tom Terrific due to its long list of achievements. But the nickname was first used by Seaver, a retired American professional baseball pitcher who played in the Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1967 to 1986.

“The mark Tom Terrific points uniquely and unmistakably to Tom Seaver and the fame or reputation of Tom Seaver as ‘Tom Terrific’ is such that a connection between Mr. Seaver and the applied-for goods would be presumed,” the USPTO stated.
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Ferraiuoli LLC (FLLC) was founded in 2003 by the late Blas Ferraiuoli-Martínez, Eugenio Torres-Oyola and María Marchand-Sánchez. This group was then joined in 2004 by Fernando J. Rovira-Rullán, thus forming the founding core of FLLC. FLLC has grown exponentially since its founding from a law firm with three attorneys and a support staff of three to its current size of 54 attorneys with a support staff of 38. Also, FLLC has grown from initially being known as an intellectual property and corporate law boutique law firm to a multiservice law firm that handles most matters relevant to a business while continuing to earn praise for its leading intellectual property and corporate practices.

FLLC has been ranked as a leading law firm in Puerto Rico by the professional publication Chambers Latin America in intellectual property, corporate, bankruptcy, labor & employment, real estate, and tax law. Moreover, 17 FLLC partners have been ranked as leaders in their field by the same publication. 4 FLLC partners are ranked as leaders in Intellectual Property, no other firm has more than 2. This recognition in such a short period of time is a tribute to FLLC’s business model.

FLLC prides itself in doing its work faster and more cost-efficiently yet with the same quality as that of its main competitors. The founding name partners are available at all times to attend to client matters. Their work ethic sets the tone for the rest of the firm. FLLC’s founders’ goal has been steady from the outset: become one of the premier multiservice law firms in Puerto Rico.

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