Q: I just received a bad evaluation of my Subway™ Restaurant, should I worry? A: Perhaps. Every year Doctor’s Associates, Inc. (“DAI”) terminates a lot of subway franchises. In most cases, the termination process starts after a series…
USPTO Denies DAI’s Use-Based Application To Register Subway’s “Footlong”
Doctor’s Associates, Inc. the franchiser of Subway® filed a use-based application to register ”Footlong” in standard character format, for “sandwiches” (revised to exclude hot dogs) . Sheetz (the operator of popular convenience stores) opposed the registration on the ground that when…