A three-judge panel of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled a South Florida Florida pizzeria chain may register and use a logo that closely resembles the green-and-yellow signs of New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway.

The ruling by the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board denied the New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s application to halt trademark registration of a circular logo by Jersey Boardwalk Pizza Co. The two signs are similar, but confusion between them is unlikely because the goods and services are so different, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ruled Tuesday.

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