PTO Rejects Samsung Wireless Speaker Trademark Try

Samsung is getting Patent and Trademark Office pushback on its Oct. 28 application for “Wireless Rear Speaker Compatible” as a plain-text trademark for TVs and speakers, agency records show. The trademark “appears to be generic in connection with the identified goods,” plus it’s “merely descriptive” of a product’s features and functions, a PTO examining attorney wrote the company Tuesday. “Only where the combination of descriptive terms creates a unitary mark with a unique, incongruous, or otherwise nondescriptive meaning in relation to the goods is the combined mark registrable,” said the attorney. Samsung has six months to respond. It didn’t comment Wednesday.