[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a law clerk in the Trademark Group at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.]. Applicant Driven Golf, Inc. made a bogey on its ...
Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr., suffered a TTAB t.k.o. (trademark knock-out) in his bout to register the phrase PAST PRESENT FUTURE for "T-shirts." Applicant argued, inter alia, that "consumers recognize the PAST PRESENT ...
[This guest post was written by Kira-Khanh McCarthy, a law clerk in the Trademark Group at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.]. The USPTO held an online public meeting of the ...
In yet another failure-to-function ruling, the Board affirmed refusals to register the term .SUCKS in the stylized form shown below, as a service mark for "Domain registry operator services related to ...
The Board upheld a failure-to-function refusal of TEXAS LOVE for "hats, shirts," finding that the phrase "only serves as an expression of a concept or sentiment, and is widely used by ...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee-Tee-Ā-Bee) has scheduled six (VI) oral hearings for the month of November 2020. The hearings will be held via video. Briefs and other papers ...
Here is a link to Ted Davis's 2020 "Annual Review of U.S. Federal Case Law and TTAB Developments." Thank you, Ted, for permitting me to post this link. As a ...
The CAFC affirmed the TTAB's decision in SFM, LLC v. Corcamore, LLC, 129 USPQ2d 1072 (TTAB 2018) [TTABlogged here], upholding the Board's entry of judgment as a sanction against Corcamore, LLC due ...
The Board sustained this opposition to registration of GS GEMS STYLE HAIR BOTOX for various non-medicated hair care products [STYLE HAIR BOTOX disclaimed], finding confusion likely with the famous mark BOTOX for pharmaceutical preparations, ...
A TTAB judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the ...