LOVE & ROSES

What this record means

The record shows that “LOVE & ROSES” is an abandoned Principal Register application owned by L.O.F.T.M., Inc., a North Carolina corporation, and it is no longer live as of the abandonment notice dated November 28 2016. The filing covered a very broad range of floral goods in International Class 031, including cut flowers, dried and fresh bouquets, wreaths, live Christmas trees, flower bulbs, seeds, herbs and decorative plants, essentially any product you would find in a florist or garden supply context. Because the registration never issued a statement of use, the USPTO never granted any enforceable rights, so the record does not give the owner control over every possible use of the words “love” or “roses.” The prosecution history shows the application progressed to a Notice of Allowance in April 2015, but the required statement of use was never filed, leading to the abandonment. The supplied history contains no oppositions, cancellations or court actions, so there is no visible enforcement activity. I'd treat this as a moderate concern if you plan to use a similar name for floral or garden products, since the abandoned filing still signals that the USPTO once linked those words to that class of goods.