The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) has scheduled four (4) oral hearings for the month of November 2017. The hearings will be held in the East Wing of the ...
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has granted the USPTO's motion for an award of its "expenses" in the BOOKING.COM case, pursuant to Section 1071(b)(3) of the Trademark ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark WHEN IT MATTERS for "retail department store services and online retail department store services," finding the mark likely to cause confusion with the identical mark ...
The Board dismissed a Section 2(d) opposition to registration of the design mark shown below left, finding it not confusingly similar to the registered design mark shown below right, both ...
The USPTO has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (here) that would streamline the Trademark Rules of Practice by removing certain regulations concerning trademark interferences. The proposed action is consistent ...
Opposer HOOS, an LLC founded by University of Virginia graduate James Creekmore, opposed the application of intrastate rival Virginia Tech to register the mark HOKIE for various educational and entertainment services, on ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark BAZAAR HOME, finding it merely descriptive of "Retail and online retail store services featuring furniture, home décor items, bedding and kitchenware." On appeal, applicant ...
Applicant Soundscape, Inc. pulled out all the stops but its arguments for reversal of this Section 2(d) refusal failed to move the TTAB. The Board affirmed the refusal to register ...
Applicant Coastal Sunbelt sought to register the mark SUNBELT ORGANIC, in standard form and in several design forms, for "organic foodstuffs, namely, salsa" and "processed organic fruits and vegetables" [ORGANIC ...
In a rare opposition based on the ground of Section 2(e)(2) geographical descriptiveness, the Board rejected applicant's Section 2(f) claim of acquired distinctiveness based on five years of use, finding ...