CROCS

What this record means

The record shows that the mark “CROCS” is no longer live; it was cancelled on September 10, 2021 because the registrant, Crocs, Inc., failed to file a required Section 8 declaration. The mark was registered on the Principal Register on February 3, 2015, and covered orthopedic footwear and medical hosiery, specifically diabetic socks, first used in December 2005. Because the cancellation was due to a maintenance failure, the mark no longer provides protection, but the historical registration still indicates that a similar name could raise the closest concern for those same goods. The record does not give Crocs, Inc. control over every use of the word “CROCS.” No opposition, cancellation, or court action appears in the supplied history, so there is no visible enforcement activity. For someone looking at a similar name, the main risk is that the cancelled registration still signals that the owner once claimed rights in orthopedic footwear and diabetic socks, so using the name in those areas could still be problematic.