PTO Declares Dead UHDA Application to Register ‘Mobile HDR Premium’ Logo
The Patent and Trademark Office declared dead the UHD Alliance’s application to register the “Mobile HDR Premium” certification logo for smartphones, tablets and laptops, said the agency’s Dec. 27 abandonment notice, giving the alliance two months to petition PTO. The…
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alliance introduced the logo and certification program at last year’s Mobile World Congress for high-resolution, high-dynamic-range battery-operated devices (see 1702280045). The alliance filed a Feb. 27 application to register the logo as a "certification mark," but a PTO examiner rejected it in a May 23 notice for several flaws, including its lack of a “disclaimer” that the alliance would make no claim to the “exclusive right” to use the words “Mobile HDR Premium” apart from the logo. "We have every intention to absolutely retain the trademark for Mobile HDR Premium," alliance President Mike Fidler told us Monday.