Question

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants protection to trade dress characteristics so long as the mark holder proves that the trade dress provides an exclusive link to the source product in the consumer's mind.
A. True
B. False

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is True

Explanation:

Trade dress communicates a business's brand identity which includes features such as size, shape, color or color combinations, configuration, packaging of a product texture, graphics and particular sales techniques that is distinctive and instantly identifies the product.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce charged with the responsibility to approve and issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions look out for Trade dress characteristics during the trademark registration process.

Answer 2

Answer:

True

Explanation:

The US patent and trademark office is an agency that protects the invention of businesses through issuing patents and trademark registration to their products.

There are conditions that a business must satisfy before it can get a patent protection. One of such is that the source of a product must be declared. This points out the relevance of the exclusive link to the source product in the consumers mind towards the grant of its patent protection by USPTO