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Snarking about trademarks, copyright, licensing, and other IP matters. Run by Missy Meyer.
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June 1: National Frozen Yogurt Day
(First Sunday in June)
Expired trademark: 85902468
Owner's description: The mark consists of a caricature of a bowl of frozen yogurt with a smiley face, arms and legs, holding a spoon in its left hand.
June 1, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 31: World Parrot Day
Expired trademark: 86388078
Owner's description: The mark consists of the following: an animated parrot having a red body, green wings fading to blue, yellow beak and claws with black tips, red and green face, one white and black eye, a pink tongue, and wearing a pirate bandana in black with a white skull and crossbones, a black eye patch over one eye and a yellow earring. The colors yellow and black also appear just behind the parrot's left shoulder.
May 31, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 30: My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Day
Expired trademark: 87576843
Owner's description: The mark consists of an animated walking water bucket character dribbling a basketball with water splashing at the top of bucket body. The handle of the bucket is gray and green, water is blue and white, eyes are blue, white, and black, arms and legs are gray, basketball is orange, hands are white, shoes are red and white, teeth are white, tongue is red. The design is outlined in black.
May 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 29: National Paper Clip Day
Expired trademark: 86633656
Owner's description: The mark consists of a stylized image of a rightward facing dog head in which the dog's ear is formed by a paper clip.
May 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 28: National Beef Burger Day
Expired trademark: 86787653
Owner's description: The mark consists of a graphical depiction of a hamburger bun with an image of a cow's head inside the bun with a cow bell around its neck.
May 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 27: Old-Time Player Piano Day
Expired trademark: 77510859
Owner's description: The mark consists of a globe with blue ocean and upper continents in green with black outline and lower continent in white with black outline, musical notes with yellow arms, black legs, white and black eyes, red mouths, and, from left to right, green body with black top, yellow body with black top, and red body with black top. The piano keys are alternating black and white as in a traditional piano keyboard.
May 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 26: National Paper Airplane Day
Expired trademark: 87464551
Owner's description: The mark consists of a stylized drawing of a paper airplane inside a circle.
May 26, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 25: National Wine Day
Expired trademark: 85641362
Owner's description: The mark consists of a man with a bottle of wine in one hand and a wine glass in the other. The man is wearing a hat and is in a running pose. Below the man is a thin oval shadow.
May 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 24: Asparagus Day
Expired trademark: 78897550
Owner's description: The color yellow appears in the words MAMITA'S and Fresh Asparagus, the dress, shoes, and the mouth; the stylized figure and the outline of the letters in the word MAMITA'S are in green; the eyes of the figure are in black and yellow.
May 24, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 23: Lucky Penny Day
Expired trademark: 77561595
Owner's description: The mark consists of a penny having a face and two hands; the penny's left hand contains currency; the penny's right hand contains a jar of coins.
May 23, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 22: National Solitaire Day
Expired trademark: 77546717
Owner's description: The mark consists of An "Ace" playing card with a face on it, with the mouth open, wearing a crown and having a cape; the playing card has arms and legs and is holding a microphone in one hand; and there are also two musical notes.
May 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 21: International Tea Day
Expired trademark: 77490788
Owner's description: The mark consists of a lady holding a cup of tea.
May 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 20: Dinosaur Day (Third Tuesday in May) and Flower Day
Expired trademark: 77389758
Owner's description: The mark consists of drawing of a dinosaur wearing a hat, right hand raised, left hand holding a flower.
May 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 19: National Accounting Day
Expired trademark: 86300112
Owner's description: The mark consists of the stylized wording and numbers "SEÑOR 1040" and design. The design consists of a white sheet of paper outlined in black with the numbers "1040" in black composing facial features. The number "1" is the left eyebrow, the "0"s are the eyes and the "4" is elongated to look like a nose. Below the number "4" is a black mustache which is above a black equal sign that represents the mouth. The figure is wearing a black mortar with a light blue stripe and a red tassel and is holding a yellow pencil with a pink eraser in the right hand and in the left hand is a black and white calculator with two orange buttons and the remaining buttons are black. The figure has white gloves and white socks and is standing on a black semi-circle. The arms and legs of the figure are black with a light blue stripe on each. The wording and number "SEÑOR 1040" appears in black below the design. Throughout the design of the figure is light blue shading.
May 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 18: World Baking Day
(Third Sunday in May)
Expired trademark: 77861915
Owner's description: The mark consists of a drawing of a smiling baker wearing a bakers hat with his hair sticking out under the bottom, a bakers shirt with three vertical buttons and a collar and an apron with his shoes sticking out underneath it, standing with one arm behind his back and the other arm holding a rolling pin, surrounded by a circle.
May 18, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 17: National Walnut Day
Expired trademark: 78919804
Owner's description: The mark consists of a saluting walnut wearing a baseball cap and glasses.
May 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 16: National Bike to Work Day
(Third Friday in May)
Expired trademark: 78929117
Owner's description: The mark consists of a silhouette of a man in suit and tie weating [sic] bicycle helmet.
May 16, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 15: National Chocolate Chip Day
Expired trademark: 85645880
Owner's description: The mark consists of The mark consists of a cartoon graphic of two Caucasian women represented with light pink skin (a blonde on the left represented with yellow hair and a brunette on the right represented with brown hair) standing before a purple mixing bowl and two brown rolling pins. Each woman wears a grey headband, grey shirt and a pink apron. Each has a hand on one hip. Each is holding aloft with their free hand a grey baking sheet full of tan chocolate chip cookies from which are raising black squiggles intended to represent heat. The mark appears on a white background and each design element is outlined in black.
May 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 14: Root Canal Appreciation Day
(Second Wednesday in May)
Expired trademark: 77919588
Owner's description: The mark consists of a stylized tooth with human characteristics holding a guitar that resembles a toothbrush, wherein the tooth is light blue, black and white and the guitar is black, purple and blue, with a white toothbrush head towards the top of the guitar and a gray shadow of the tooth and guitar appears on the bottom of the mark.
May 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 13: World Cocktail Day
Expired trademark: 86974877
Owner's description: The mark consists of a head in profile with a cocktail glass at the lips of the head and a liquid flowing from the cocktail glass through the mouth of the head; within the head there is a window that shows various elements which include a lemon, pear, strawberry, acorn, pipe, orange slice, coffee cup, grapes, flower, cherry, honeycomb, pepper and apple. All aforementioned elements are set on a circular background.
May 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 12: National Women's Check-Up Day
(Monday of the second full week of May)
Expired trademark: 77750691
Owner's description: The mark consists of design of a female doctor wearing a labcoat [sic] and stethoscope around her neck.
May 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 11: Mothers Day (USA)
(Second Sunday in May)
Expired trademark: 78605393
Owner's description: The mark consists of The image of a mother.
May 11, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 10: National Train Day
(Second Saturday in May)
Expired trademark: 79049141
Owner's description: The mark consists of the color blue appears in the body of the train; the color yellow appears on the front of the train, on the decorative lines on the body of the train, on the borders around the windows and eyes, on the wheels, and on the raised pieces on the top of the train; the color gold appears on the horn; the color white appears on the eyes; the color black appears in the windows, in the eyes on the wheels, and on the vents at the top of the train; the color brown appears on the eyes, the eyelids, and the wipers intended to be the trains eyebrows; the color grey appears in the lights, the door handle and the round piece on the bottom of the train; and the color orange appears in the reflector on the side of the train.
May 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 9: Lost Sock Memorial Day
Expired trademark: 86449282
Owner's description: The mark consists of a running dog with a sock in its mouth superimposed on a shadow.
May 9, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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May 8: National Give Someone a Cupcake Day
Expired trademark: 76709866
Owner's description: The mark consists of a lady represented by a cupcake that has a pink and light pink wrapper bearing red, black and white lips, a brown and gold colored cake bearing two black and white eyes and topped with brown icing, a swirl of gold and white cream, and a red cherry outlined in black with white and pink highlighting and a green stem. The same lady cupcake design also includes two gold, brown and red legs wearing red high heels and two gold, brown and red arms and hands with red fingernails and the left hand is holding a white and blue champagne flute containing a pink cupcake topped with a red cherry having a green stem and a black and white wrapper and is wearing a pink skirt underneath a blue and white apron featuring a pink cupcake topped with a red cherry having a green stem and a black and white wrapper.
May 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM