Having just gone through my own trademark hoopla, I'm convinced that trademark examiners might as well be throwing darts at a dartboard. The decisions are so a

Having just gone through my own trademark hoopla, I'm convinced that trademark examiners might as well be throwing darts at a dartboard. The decisions are so arbitrary that there ends up being essentially no established precedent for a lot of critical questions -- "acquired distinctiveness" "descriptive" etc. ultimately mean "how deep are your pockets" and "how many times are you willing to appeal."