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ESTTA Tracking number: ESTTA812305

Filing date: 04/07/2017

IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

BEFORE THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD

Proceeding 91216585

Party DefendantThatch, LLC

CorrespondenceAddress

FRANK J GILBERTSCHWARTZ & CERA LLP201 CALIFORNIA STREET SUITE 450SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111UNITED STATESfrank@schwartz-cera.com, ryg@cll.com, dks@cll.com, trademark@cll.com

Submission Defendant's Notice of Reliance

Filer's Name Joelle A. Milov

Filer's e-mail jam@cll.com, dks@cll.com, trademark@cll.com, doug@schwartz-cera.com,ken@schwartz-cera.com, frank@schwartz-cera.com

Signature /Joelle A. Milov/

Date 04/07/2017

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IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

BEFORE THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD

In the matter of:

Application Serial No. 85/932,097

Mark: PATIO BY THE SPADES

Published in the Official Gazette on April 29, 2014

Kate Spade LLC,

Opposer,

v.

Thatch, LLC

Applicant.

Opposition No.: 91216585

(PARENT)

In the matter of:

Application Serial No. 86/179,137

Mark: THE SPADES

Published in the Official Gazette on June 10, 2014

Kate Spade LLC,

Opposer,

v.

The Spades Trademark Company, LLC

Applicant.

Opposition No.: 91217168

APPLICANTS’ SECOND NOTICE OF RELIANCE

PURSUANT TO TRADEMARK RULE 2.122(e)

Pursuant to Trademark Rule 2.122(e), Applicants Thatch, LLC and The Spades

Trademark Company, LLC hereby give notice of their reliance upon Internet materials and

print publications for definitions of “Spade.” Such evidence is submitted to show lack of

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strength and fame of KATE SPADE and KATE SPADE-formative marks, lack of similarity

of the marks and common use of the terms for goods and services. Accordingly, the evidence

supports Applicants’ claim that there is no likelihood of confusion or dilution among the

marks at issue in these contested proceedings, including, but not limited to the claim that the

parties’ respective marks are not similar and subject to different meanings. The exhibits,

attached hereto and referenced below, consist of the following:

Internet Materials and Print Publications

Location of Materials (URL) Date of

Access/Print

EXHIBIT A: https://www.merriam-webster-com/dictionary/spade 1/23/2017

EXHIBIT B: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/spade

1/23/2017

EXHIBIT C: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/spade?s=t 1/23/2017

EXHIBIT D: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/spade 3/16/2017

EXHIBIT E: https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=spade 3/16/2017

EXHIBIT F: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/spade 3/16/2017

Dated: New York, New York

April 7, 2017 Respectfully submitted,

COWAN, LIEBOWITZ & LATMAN, P.C.

By: /Deborah K. Squiers/

Deborah K. Squiers

Joelle A. Milov

114 W. 47th Street

New York, New York 10036

(212) 790-9200

SCHWARTZ & CERA LLP

201 California Street, Suite 450

San Francisco, CA 94111

(414) 956-2600

30857/000/2200877.1

Co-Counsel for Applicants

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that I caused a true and correct copy of the foregoing to be served on

April 7, 2017 upon Opposer by electronic mail to Opposer’s counsel of record at the

following email addresses:

NYC-Trademark@dwt.com

roxanneelings@dwt.com

orrinfalby@dwt.com

lisakeith@dwt.com

danielletoaltoan@dwt.com

Dated: New York, New York /s/ Joelle A. Milov

April 7, 2017 Joelle A. Milov

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Definition of spade1. 1 : a digging implement adapted for being pushed into the ground with the foot

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Origin and Etymology of spadeMiddle English, from Old English spadu; akin to Greek spathē blade of a sword or oar

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in spades

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Origin and Etymology of spadeItalian spada or Spanish espada broadsword; both from Latin spatha, from Greek spathē blade

First Known Use: circa 1598

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A tool with a sharp-edged, typicallyrectangular, metal blade and a long handle,used for digging or cutting earth, sand, turf,etc.

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[with object and adverbial of direction]Move (soil) with a spade:

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OriginOld English spadu, spada, of Germanic origin;related to Dutch spade, German Spaten, also toGreek spathē blade, paddle.

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OriginLate 16th century: from Italian spade, plural ofspada sword, via Latin from Greek spathē;compare with spade.

Pronunciationspade /speɪd/

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[speyd]

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noun

a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece atthe top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.

some implement, piece, or part resembling this.

a sharp projection on the bottom of a gun trail, designed to dig into the earth to restrict backward movement of the carriage during recoil.

verb (used with object), spaded, spading.

to dig, cut, or remove with a spade (sometimes followed by up):Let's spade up the garden and plant some flowers.

Idioms

call a spade a spade, to call something by its real name; be candidly explicit; speak plainly or bluntly:To call a spade a spade, he's a crook.

in spades, Informal.a. in the extreme; positively:

He's a hypocrite, in spades.b. without restraint; outspokenly:

I told him what I thought, in spades.

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before 900; Middle English (noun); Old English spadu; cognate with Dutch spade, German Spaten, Old Norse spathi spade, Greek spáthē broad, flat

piece of wood

spadelike, adjective

spader, noun

unspaded, adjective

spade, spay (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/spay).

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spade

1.

2.

3.

4.

[speyd]

noun

a black figure shaped like an inverted heart and with a short stem at the cusp opposite the point, used on playing cards.

a card of the suit bearing such figures.

spades.a. (used with a singular or plural verb) the suit so marked:

Spades is trump. Spades count double.b. (used with a plural verb) Casino. the winning of seven spades or more.

Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.

1590­1600; < Italian, plural of spada orig., sword < Latin spatha < Greek spáthē; see spade (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/spade)

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The administration refused to budge on calling a spade a spade.

He is a master baker, and last year opened a bakery at the Partners & spade gallery in New York.

At the dinner, Lowe and spade stare in disbelief as Farley devours two gigantic porterhouse steaks.

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spade/speɪd/

1

1.

2.

noun

a tool for digging, typically consisting of a flat rectangular steel blade attached to a long wooden handle

a. an object or part resembling a spade in shape

spade

1.

2.

3.

/speɪd/

noun

a. the black symbol on a playing card resembling a heart­shaped leaf with a stemb. a card with one or more of these symbols or (when pl) the suit of cards so marked, usually the highest ranking of the four

a derogatory word for Black (/browse/black)

(informal) in spades, in an extreme or emphatic way

C16: from Italian spada sword, used as an emblem on playing cards, from Latin spatha, from Greek spathē blade, broadsword

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n.

"tool for digging," Old English spadu, from Proto­Germanic *spadon (cf. Old Frisian spada, Middle Dutch spade, Old Saxon spado, Middle Low Germanspade, German Spaten), from PIE *spe­ "long, flat piece of wood" (cf. Greek spathe "wooden blade, paddle," Old English spon "chip of wood, splinter,"Old Norse spann "shingle, chip").

To call a spade a spade "use blunt language, call things by right names" (1540s) translates a Greek proverb (known to Lucian), ten skaphen skaphenlegein "to call a bowl a bowl," but Erasmus mistook Greek skaphe "trough, bowl" for a derivative of the stem of skaptein "to dig," and the mistake hasstuck.

"figure on playing cards," 1590s, probably from Italian spade, plural of spada "sword, spade," from Latin spatha "broad, flat weapon or tool," fromGreek spathe "broad blade" (see spade (/browse/spade) (n.1)). Phrase in spades "in abundance" first recorded 1929 (Damon Runyon), probably frombridge, where spades are the highest­ranking suit.

The invitations to the musicale came sliding in by pairs and threes and spade flushes. [O.Henry, "Cabbages & Kings," 1904]

Derogatory meaning "black person" is 1928, from the color of the playing card symbol.

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Slang definitions & phrases for spade

spadenoun

A black person: The spades inhabited Harlem and let the ofays have Wall Street to themselves

[1928+; fr the color of the playing­card symbol and fr the phrase black as the ace of spades]

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Idioms and Phrases with spade

spadesee:call a spade a spade (/browse/call­­a­­spade­­a­­spade)do the spadework (/browse/do­the­spadework)in spades (/browse/in­­spades)

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1. A sturdy digging tool having a thick handle and a heavy, flat blade that can be pressed into the ground with the foot.

2. Any of various similar digging or cutting tools.

tr.v. spad·ed, spad·ing, spades

To dig or cut with a spade.Idiom:

call a spade a spade

To speak plainly and forthrightly.

[Middle English, from Old English spadu.]

spad er n.

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1. Games

a. A black, leaf-shaped figure on certain playing cards.

b. A playing card with this figure.

c. also spades (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.

2. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a black person.Idiom:

in spades

To a considerable degree: They had financial trouble in spades.

[Italian spade, pl. of spada, card suit, from Latin spatha, sword, broad-bladed stirrer, from Greek spath , broad blade.]

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Definition of 'spade'

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English: spade1

English: spade2

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Word Frequency

spade (spe d )

Word forms: plural spades

1. countable noun

A spade is a tool used for digging, with a flat metal blade and a long handle.

... a garden spade.

The girls happily played in the sand with buckets and spades.

2. uncountable noun

Spades is one of the four suits in a pack of playing cards. Each card in the suit is marked with one or more black

symbols: .

...the ace of spades.

A spade is a playing card of this suit.

3.

to call a spade a spade

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spade1 (spe d )

noun

1.

a tool for digging, typically consisting of a flat rectangular steel blade attached to a long wooden handle

2.

a.

an object or part resembling a spade in shape

b.

(as modifier)

a spade beard

3.

a heavy metallic projection attached to the trail of a gun carriage that embeds itself into the ground and so

reduces recoil

4.

a type of oar blade that is comparatively broad and short

Compare spoon (sense 6)

5.

a cutting tool for stripping the blubber from a whale or skin from a carcass

6. call a spade a spade

verb

7. (transitive)

to use a spade on

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spader ( spader)

noun

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Word origin of 'spade'

Old English spadu; related to Old Norse spathi, Old High German spato, Greek spath blade

Word Frequency

spade2 (spe d )

noun

1.

a.

the black symbol on a playing card resembling a heart-shaped leaf with a stem

b.

a card with one or more of these symbols or (when pl) the suit of cards so marked, usually the highest ranking of

the four

2. an offensive word for Black

3. in spades

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Word origin of 'spade'

C16: from Italian spada sword, used as an emblem on playing cards, from Latin spatha, from Greek spath

blade, broadsword

Word Frequency

spade1 in American English (spe d ; sp d)

noun

1.

a heavy, flat-bladed, long-handled tool used for digging by pressing the metal blade into the ground with the

foot

2.

any of several tools resembling a spade

3.

a part of the trail of a gun carriage which digs into the ground, so as to brace the gun during recoil

verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: spaded or spading

4.

to dig or cut with or as with a spade

Idioms:

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call a spade a spade

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Derived forms

spadeful1 ( spadeful)

noun

spader1 ( spader)

noun

Word origin of 'spade'

ME < OE spadu, akin to Ger spaten < IE base *sp -, long flat piece of wood > spoon, Gr spath

Word Frequency

spade2 in American English (spe d ; sp d)

noun

1.

any of a suit of playing cards marked with black figures shaped like this:

2. [pl., with sing. or pl. v.]

this suit of cards

3. Slang

black (sense 20)

term of contempt and prejudice

Idioms:

in spades

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Word origin of 'spade'

Sp espada, sword (the sign used on Spanish cards) < L spatha, flat blade < Gr spath : see spade1

Word Frequency

spade3 in American English (spe d ; sp d)

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verb transitiveWord forms: spaded or spading

Dialectal

spay

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Example sentences containing 'spade'

All will receive stainless steel spade trophies.

The Sun (2012)

East has short spades and wants his partner to bid.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Locals with garden spades and forks saved her.

The Sun (2011)

He simply played ace and another spade.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

No good and he forlornly exited with a fourth spade.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

You lead the king of clubs against four spades.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

They get their buckets and spades and are so excited.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

Note that it was important for declarer to win his ace of spades at trick one.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

So four spades should go one down?

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

West ruffs with the jack and leads a second spade.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

She just calls a spade a spade.

The Sun (2014)

West played low on the spade and it was all over.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

You win in hand and play ace and another spade.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

We want to get spades in the ground quickly.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

He looked no further than the ace of spades.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

Dummy ruffed the fourth spade and a heart and a club were cashed.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

West led a spade and five clubs went one down.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

Sadly they are bit old to be kept quiet by a bucket and spade.

The Sun (2011)

The spade blockage makes this very awkward as the only dummy entry to the two long spades is the third round

of trumps.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

Would you back declarer to make his doubled game Look carefully at the spade spot cards.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

Invest in a sharp spade, preferably steel.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Lock away tools such as garden spades, too.

The Sun (2009)

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His one chance was a 3-3 spade split and two long spades in dummy.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

With such a good spade suit and distribution, at the prevailing favourable vulnerability he should bid four

spades.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

Yes, you were lucky that East held the ace of spades in a short holding.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

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British English: spade /spe d/ NOUN

A spade is a tool used for digging, with a flat metal blade and a long handle....a garden spade.

Arabic:

Brazilian Portuguese: pá

Chinese:

Croatian: lopata

Czech: rý

Danish: spade

Dutch: spade

European Spanish: pala cavar

Finnish: lapio

French: bêche

German: Spaten Spaten

Greek:

Italian: vanga

Japanese:

Korean:

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Norwegian: spade

Polish: opata

Portuguese: pá

Romanian: cazma cazmale

Russian:

Spanish: pala

Swedish: spade

Thai:

Turkish: kürek

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