Embarrassment for Meghan Markle as Her ‘Lifestyle Brand’ of Jam, Nut Butters Loses Bid With Patent Office To Trademark Its Name
The patent office said the brand, American Riviera Orchard, had a name that was too ‘primarily geographically descriptive,’ as it used a widely used term for the Santa Barbara, California, area.
Meghan Markle’s nascent business initiative, her new lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard, is in crisis after U.S. patent regulators refused her request to trademark the name, as it is “primarily geographically descriptive.”
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