The judicial system appears gridlocked and unable to deviate from the patent-eligibility patent law based upon modern case law: This is keyed to a widespread belief following the Bilski case ...
Tap It Brewing opposed an application to register the mark TAP IT for energy drinks, claiming a likelihood of confusion with the identical mark registered for beer. Applicant Tap or ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark THE BEVERLY for "denims; jeans; pants," finding the mark likely to cause confusion with the registered mark BEVERLY JEANS & Design, shown below, ...
Patron Spirits opposed the application of Peter W. Noyes to register the mark IT'S PIRATE TIME for "distilled spirits" and for "retail store services featuring rum and rum based products...," ...
The Board affirmed refusals to register POWERED BY JUJU and JUJU JOINTS for smokeless marijuana vaporizers on the ground that the identified goods are illegal under the federal Controlled Substances ...
In anticipation of her likely leaving her government position in January, PTO Under Secretary Michelle Lee gave what appears to be her final speech to a plenary session of the ...
Chef Sous LLC opposed an application to register the mark NOT SO SIMPLE SYRUP for "syrups for making beverages; non-alcoholic drink and cocktail mixes" [SYRUP disclaimed], claiming likelihood of confusion ...
Seattle-based J. Michael Keyes reviews the TTAB's recent decision in In re Brown, in his pun-filled commentary entitled, "USPTO Snuffs Out Marijuana Dispensary Service Mark Application: Will All Others Go ...
This issue has recently generated comments. The answer is “no”. As explained by the Supreme Court in Diamond Rubber: “A patentee may be baldly empirical, seeing nothing beyond his experiments ...
I once heard a TTAB judge say that the outcome of most Section 2(d) likelihood of confusion cases can be predicted just by looking at the marks and the identified ...