Petitioner JNF LLC was undoubtedly unhappy with the result of its petition to cancel a registration for the mark HAPPIEST HOUR for bar and restaurant services. JNF claimed prior use of THE HAPPIEST ...
In an exhaustive and exhausting opinion, the Board granted petitions to cancel two registration for the mark OLD SCHOOL for various clothing items, on the ground of abandonment. The Board found ...
Finding that Opposer Rapid Inc.'s star witness "had not only been dishonest with the Board, but he also engaged in spoliation of evidence," the Board threw out this Section 2(d) ...
Each of the parties to this Section 2(d) cancellation proceeding filed a motion for summary judgment. Respondent stipulated to petitioner's priority, as well as to all of the essential DuPont ...
The Board affirmed the USPTO's refusal to register the mark EVERLAST & Design for "wet well mounted pumping stations; wastewater pumping stations; sewage pumping stations" on two grounds: res judicata, ...
The Board dismissed Kate Spade LLC's opposition to registration of the mark WOLV & Design (shown below left) for watches, finding the mark to be too dissimilar to the KATE ...
The Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark WEGE for beer on the ground that "none of the specimens show use of the mark ... to indicate the source ...
The USPTO's 2021 Performance and Accountability Report is chock full of information and data regarding USPTO operations. (pdf here). The report is slightly more than 250 pages long, so I will hit a ...
On January 18, 2022, the CAFC denied Appellant Brooklyn Brewery's petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in the recent Brooklyn Brewery case. [CAFC opinion here; denial of rehearing here], in which the court held ...
In a somewhat muddled decision, the Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark HAVE SOME DECENCY for various charitable fund raising services on the ground that the mark was ...