Companies generally choose one of five types of words to promote their goods and services. From strongest to weakest, the word types are fanciful, arbitrary, suggestive, descriptive and generic.

And while a week or two of law school is often dedicated to the detailed academic differences between the different types of trademarks and the underlying court decisions demonstrating these differences, the basic types of marks can be illustrated through a tour of current and former Atlanta restaurants.

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