In an enervating, yet precedential ruling, the CAFC affirmed the Board's decision sustaining an opposition to the mark STRATUS NETWORKS & Design for various telecommunications services, in view of the registered ...
Pro se applicant Robert David Moose was stopped in his tracks when attempting to register the mark REAGAN WORLD & Design, shown below, for the service of providing information regarding ...
[This guest post was authored by John L. Strand, Shareholder in the Trademark and Litigation Groups at Wolf Greenfield]. Ross Bicycles LLC petitioned for the cancellation of Registration No. 980,887 ...
A TTAB Administrative Trademark Judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal 95% of the time just by looking at the marks ...
In a precedential ruling, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit weaved its way through Supreme Court precedent on the law of color marks in vacating (and remanding) ...
Professional wrestler Ric Flair lost this bout at the TTAB, the Board affirming a Section 2(d) refusal to register the mark NATURE BOY for various items of clothing, in view of the registered ...
Chris Combs opposed Willie Sonley's application to register BOOTYMAXX for "vitamins," claiming a likelihood of confusion with his previously used common law mark BOOTYMAXTV for "non-pornographic videos of women shaking and moving their ...
The Board reversed a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register mark MINKY COUTURE for "Baby blankets; Bed blankets; Children’s blankets, all made using minky fabric" [MINKY disclaimed], finding that the mark had ...
The USPTO issued a Section 2(e)(1) refusal of the mark ARTIZEN, in standard character and stylized form, finding it to be merely descriptive of essential oils and related products. On ...
On remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Board again affirmed a Section 2(d) refusal to register the mark GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY & Design for "mortgage ...