Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B. V.

Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B. V.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued May 4, 2020 Decided June 30, 2020
Full case name	United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. v. Booking.com B. V.
Docket no.	19-46
Citations	591 U.S. ___ (more) 140 S. Ct. 2298
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Booking.com B.V. v. Matal, 278 F. Supp. 3d 891 (E.D. Va. 2017) Affirmed sub nom., Booking.com B. V. v. Patent and Trademark Office, 915 F.3d 171 (4th Cir. 2019) Cert. granted, 140 S. Ct. 489 (2019)
Holding
A term styled “generic.com” is a generic name for a class of goods or services only if the term has that meaning to consumers.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh
Case opinions
Majority	Ginsburg, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh
Concurrence	Sotomayor
Dissent	Breyer
Laws applied
Lanham Act

Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B. V., 591 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the trademarkability of a generic terms appended with a top-level domain (TLD) specifier (in this case "Booking.com"). The Court ruled that such names can be trademarked unless the existing combination of term and TLD is considered to have a generic meaning to consumers.^[1]