Too many businesses and others refer to “Taco Tuesday” for Taco John’s to be able to have exclusive rights to the phrase, Taco Bell asserted.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Declaring a mission to liberate “Taco Tuesday” for all, Taco Bell is asking U.S. regulators to force the Taco John’s chain to abandon its longstanding claim to the trademark.
It’s the latest development in a long-running beef. The Patent and Trademark Office approved the Taco John’s “Taco Tuesday” trademark in 1989. A key question is whether “Taco Tuesday” over the years has succumbed to “genericide,” New York trademark law attorney Emily Poler said. That’s the term for when a word or phrase become so widely used for similar products — or in this case, sales promotions — they’re no longer associated with the trademark holder.“Basically what this is about is you cannot trademark something that is ‘generic,'” Poler said. “That means it doesn’t have any association with that particular source or product.
A Taco John’s franchisee in Minnesota came up with “Taco Twosday” to promote two tacos for 99 cents on a slow day of the week, CEO Jim Creel told the Associated Press in an interview Tuesday.
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