Hugunin, 88 USPQ2d 1957 (TTAB 2008) [precedential].The Morehouse defense: The never-popular Morehouse defends stands for the proposition that, as a matter of law, an opposer cannot be damaged by a second registration when the applicant already has an existing, unchallenged registration of the same mark for the same goods. [read post]

The Board disagreed:"As a matter of law, the doctrine of foreign equivalents does not apply to a foreign mark partially comprised of characters that have no English translation, at least with respect to Morehouse analysis. [read post]