This is actually the second time McDonald's has filed to trademark «McBrunch,» with a previous,
abandoned application filed in 2001.
Not exact matches
The patent
application will be published 18 months after the first
filing date, so if the patent process is going to be
abandoned, it is wise to do so before public disclosure occurs.
The court
filing notes that the plaintiff «was the first to
file a device so designed and aggregated,» but admits that the patent
application was declared
abandoned in 1995 because Ross never paid the required
application fees.
The
application was deemed
abandoned and the
file closed.
Shortly thereafter he
abandoned the initial Hague
filing and brought a second
application under the Hague Convention seeking the return of his son to Montana.
Filed in August of 2015, this patent appears to have been a «continuation in part» of a patent
application from July of 2013, a patent which has now been «
abandoned» in favor of this new listing.