Federal Circuit: TTAB Rightly Canceled Pawn Shop Marks Due To Earlier Use

( March 20, 2025, 1:28 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 19 held that a financial group could not use the zone of natural expansion doctrine in support of its claims of priority of use of the mark “Money Mart” in connection with pawn shops and pawn brokerage, affirming a partial grant of another company’s petition for trademark cancelation....