# TTAB Rulings: June 2026

> Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decisions tracked this month, week by week.

- [Patterns others in the field already use are ornament, judged class by class](https://distinctive-mark.com/rulings/in-re-ralphs-famous-italian-ices-franchise/index.md): The Board measures a pattern's distinctiveness separately for every class in an application, and a handful of third-party users can be enough to defeat a basic design. Once many others use the same ornament, sales, advertising spend and years of use do little, and calling those users infringers doe… (2026-06-25)
- [A famous athlete’s nickname can support both Section 2(a) and 2(c) refusals](https://distinctive-mark.com/rulings/in-re-wemby-corporation/index.md): In a precedential decision, the TTAB affirmed refusals of WEMBY for athletic apparel because the record showed WEMBY was Victor Wembanyama’s nickname, pointed uniquely and unmistakably to him, and would make buyers presume a connection. The same record also made written consent necessary under Sect… (2026-06-24)
- [A lapsed registration's years beside a cited mark do not help the refiling](https://distinctive-mark.com/rulings/in-re-textnow/index.md): The Strategic Partners exception lets a long-registered applicant overcome a §2(d) citation, but only while that registration is alive and beyond a priority attack. Once a registration lapses for want of a Section 8 declaration, a new application is examined against today's register, and for foreig… (2026-06-23)
- [Unanswered admission requests can void a use-based registration](https://distinctive-mark.com/rulings/super-kings-international-v-shenzhen-bmx-network-technology/index.md): Ignoring requests for admission can concede nonuse before the filing date and void a use-based registration; two SUPERKING registrations cancelled. (2026-06-05)