Ralph’s prevailed on its franchising-services specimen but could not convince the Board that its repeating blue-and-white stripe pattern functioned as a trademark. The TTAB found the pattern to be common ornamentation and held that Ralph’s evidence failed to establish acquired distinctiveness.
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