Opinion ID: 2792301
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Heading: Cancellation of Trademark Registrations

Text: A court may cancel the registration of a trademark that it determines is not distinctive. See 15 U.S.C. § 1119 (“In any action involving a registered mark the court may . . . order the cancellation of registrations . . . .”); see also Xtreme Lashes, LLC, 576 F.3d at 232 (“[I]f the mark is found to be either generic or descriptive and lacking secondary meaning, a court may cancel it.”). The district court canceled Haydel’s word mark and design mark registrations for all three classifications—clothing, jewelry, and king cake pastries—based on the court’s findings that the marks were generic, or, alternatively, descriptive without secondary meaning. Cancellation of Haydel’s word and design marks was proper because the record evidence compels the conclusion that these marks are descriptive of Haydel’s products but lack secondary meaning. 24 Case: 13-30918 Document: 00512998539 Page: 25 Date Filed: 04/08/2015 No. 13-30918