As I’ve been known to do long before now, this past weekend I found myself gazing intently, this time, into the front label and back copy on this S. Pellegrino sparkling natural mineral water bottle:
Putting aside the question of the shiny red star logo, which we already have bloviated about, here, a few years back — my focus centered on the surrounding Enhance Your Moments tagline.
No gold star for the brand’s failure to capture federally-registered protection for it, despite the obvious association with SanPellegrino, as shown in results of a simple Google search, here.
Another “no gold star” moment that needs a modicum of enhancement would be the back copy:
Why? As you can see, SanPellegrino has taken a perfectly fine, inherently distinctive, and suggestive trademark, and used it in a sentence (without brand emphasis) is a descriptive sense.
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