The USPTO refused registration of the mark shown below for "financial analysis and consultation," deeming it to be a phantom mark - i.e., a mark with a changeable element - ...
Esteemed Stanford University Law School Professor Mark A. Lemley has produced an impressive amicusbrief in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Fed. Cir. 2016-1284. Professor Lemley argues that ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the TTAB's ruling in In re Cordua Restaurants LP, 110 USPQ2d 1227 (TTAB 2014) [precedential] [TTABlogged here], finding the term ...
The previous note (attached) focuses on what's neither in the Rules of Practice in Patent Cases, the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure nor the mammoth AIPLA treatise cited in the ...
In the five years since the Leahy Smith America Invents Act became law, many Americans have adapted to the new reality of first-to-file. Yet, theRules of Practice in Patent Cases ...
The Board affirmed a refusal to register the mark SAVE IT YOUR WAY for "creating an on-line community for registered users ...," finding that Applicant FTD failed to show use ...
Yesterday at the George Washington University Law School in a patent law conference focused on Brazil, former Federal Circuit Chief Judge Randall R. Rader presented interesting views on several issues: ...
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 ...
Today in Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corp., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016) (Hughes, J.), the court reversed a summary judgment holding that the claims of the patent lack patent-eligibility ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark DIGITAL BOOTH for "metal phone booths." Applicant Packaging 22 argued that the mark is merely suggestive because "there is nothing digital about a ...