In what appears to be the first TTAB decision finding a color to be generic, the Board granted a petition for partial cancellation of a registration for the mark shown ...
Applicant Haden sought a registration on the Supplemental Register for the mark shown below, for "Medical and health care services, namely, medical treatment of allergies, asthma, immune disorders, and shortness ...
The USPTO refused to register the mark shown below, for "vodka," based on the applicant's failure to comply with a drawing requirement and its failure to amend the color claim ...
The Board dismissed this opposition to registration of the mark BLUE INDUSTRY for various clothing items, finding no likelihood of confusion with, and no likelihood of dilution of, various INDUSTRY-formative marks owned ...
On December 10, 2019 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time), the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) will host a webinar entitled "Constitutionality of Protecting Product Designs ...
The Board denied a motion to compel Applicant Princess Race Wear to produce the "metadata" for five photographs that applicant provided during discovery, because Opposer Chix Gear did not ask ...
In yet another in a stream of failure-to-function decisions, the Board affirmed a refusal to register the word+design mark shown immediately below, for "crabmeat," on the ground that the phrase ...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee-Tee-Ā-Bee) has scheduled nine (IX) oral hearings for the month of December 2019. Except for the sixth on the list, the hearings will be ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark HICCUP for various entertainment services, on the ground that the drawing (the work HICCUP in standard character form) was not a "substantially exact representation ...
John B. Farmer is a trademark expert who founded the Leading-Edge Law Group, PLC in Richmond Virginia. He is a past Chairman of the Trademark Public Advisory Committee of the USPTO ...