If you’re a Central Coast trademark lawyer, it’s not long before someone asks you about the Lone Cypress. The Lone Cypress is an iconic tree that stands on top of a granite outcropping in Pebble Beach, between Pacific Grove and Carmel-by-the-Sea. It’s a Monterey cypress, endemic to just a few native groves in Carmel, Pebble Beach and Point Lobos (though now cultivated internationally). The Lone Cypress sits on land owned, like most of the gated Pebble Beach community, by the