The October 2016 Term of the Supreme Court that runs through June 2017 promises to be one of the busier years for the Court in patent cases. Three Cases up ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark shown below left, for "flavored bottle water, flavored enhanced water, flavored water, purified bottled drinking water, bottled artesian water, drinking water with vitamins, ...
An astute observer has pointed out that the Federal Circuit Clerk's Office seemingly has abandoned the notice-and-comment procedures for promulgating and amending the local rules. Without announcement, a "best practices" ...
The USPTO refused to register the mark AMERICAN BARRISTER for legal services, deeming the mark to be merely descriptive under Section 2(e)(1) and primarily geographically descriptive under Section 2(e)(2). Applicant ...
The USPTO refused to register the mark GUINEA for, inter alia, collectible coins, deeming the mark merely descriptive under Section 2(e)(1). Applicant East India pointed out that a "guinea" is ...
The USPTO issued a Section 2(e)(1) refusal of the mark TOON KICKER, finding it to be merely descriptive of "outboard motor mounts, namely, brackets specifically design for connection to pontoon ...
In this Section 2(d) cancellation proceeding, Respondent Cooper moved to compel the parties to mediate. The Board denied Cooper's motion, pointing out that, although the Board encourages settlement, the Board ...
The TTAB squelched Paul D. Marotta's attempt to register the designation THE CORPORATE LAW GROUP for various legal services, on the ground of genericness. For the sake of completeness, the ...
Ray Niro had already been a highly successful patent litigator in the last century. From a controversy with Intel reported in the press in 2001, he became known worldwide as a ...
Last Friday, the Board decided three Section 2(d) appeals, reversing one of the refusals. Some say that 95% of the time, one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) ...