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Tis the season to register your jacket as a trademark? That is what Barbour is looking to do with a newly-filed application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”). The nearly 125 year old English outerwear brand wants to federally register design elements of its $400 Bristol Wax Jacket, which it says it has been selling since as early as 1980, and thereby, prevent others from making and selling the same – or confusingly similar – versions.
According to the trademark application that Barbour filed on December 13, the trademark – or better yet, trade dress – consists of “a three-dimensional configuration of an outerwear design featuring a combination of the following elements: 4 pockets placed and oriented as follows: 2 on each of the front left and right side beginning at the mid-breast of the jacket and extending to the waist of the jacket; [and] 2 large pockets on each of the left and ride side of the jacket beginning at the [waist] and extending to just above the bottom of the jacket both with exterior flap closures and two eyelets on the underside of the front pockets.”
Still yet, Barbour is claiming rights in “a metal zipper pull configured in a ring shape with the top quarter of the ring being solid on a 2-way opening zip; a collar made of corduroy with detachable throat cover; and a studded flap that closes over the entirety of the front zipper on the middle of the jacket.”
Read more at http://www.thefashionlaw.com/home/barbour-claims-exclusive-rights-in-its-wax-jacket-in-new-trademark-application
