Here is an updated collection of Section 2(a) deceptiveness cases from the TTABlog. Of course, most of these decisions are not precedential, but even non-precedential decisions may be helpful in ...
Here's an updated, lengthy list of Section 2(e)(2) geographical descriptiveness cases. These are much more common than Section 2(e)(3) refusals, perhaps because the former is more easily established since it ...
Here is an updated collection of Section 2(e)(3) cases. Of course, most of the decisions are not precedential, but even non-precedential decisions may be helpful in framing effective arguments and ...
I know. The cynics out there are saying that, in TTAB land, everything is related to clothing. Well what about this one? The USPTO refused registration of the mark OUT ...
The recent MANIKCHAND decision is one of only seven Sections 2(c) decision discussed at the TTABlog in the last 14 and one-half years. Set out below is a complete list. ...
ESR Performance Corp. has commenced a civil action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, seeking review of the Board's decision granting a petition for cancellation ...
The Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register the mark FOUNDRY, finding it deceptively deceptively misdescriptive of "plumbing products, namely, faucets." Applicant Masco stated that the goods are not ...
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed this declaratory judgment action because the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to hear the lawsuit. Plaintiff Halo Lifestyle ...
In the current issue (here) of the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts (Volume 42, No. 3 (2019)), a cavalcade of professors and attorneys discuss the right of publicity ...
The CAFC issued a per curiam affirmance under Fed. Cir. R. 36, upholding the TTAB's ruling dismissing an opposition because the opposer failed to respond to a Fed. R. Civ. ...