Heaven Hill Distilleries petitioned to cancel Cricket Hill's registration for the mark HOPNOTIC for "beer" on the ground of likelihood of confusion with the registered mark HPNOTIQ for "liqueur." Heaven ...
Bill Weigl was a leader of the late twentieth century Cleveland patent community who rose to the position of Corporate Patent Counsel at Harris Corporation. He served in leadership positions ...
The Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark shown below, consisting of a repeated diamond pattern applied to the lower third of the cylinder of "electronic hookahs," deeming ...
Next week in Helsinn Healthcare the Federal Circuit will entertain oral argument to determine whether the secret commercialization of a process invention under Metallizing Engineering remains barred under the Leahy ...
Mark your calender for the USPTO's National Trademark Expo to be be held on October 21st and 22nd at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. ...
With the Supreme Court yet to open its doors for its first hearings next week, the Court has already granted three petitions for review: Samsung v. Apple will be argued October ...
Further to the Sept. 22nd email, the fundamental problem with the American grace period is the different approach taken versus the European Patent Convention and the Japan Patent Law: In ...
I once heard a TTAB judge say that the outcome of most Section 2(d) likelihood of confusion cases may be predicted just by looking at the marks and the identified ...
Recently, this writer published a paper showing that the grace period may fail to save an inventor who publishes before filing. This is because the state of the art to ...
Christopher Larkin has been appointed to the position of Administrative Trademark Judge at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. His appointment brings the total number of TTAB judges to 26. ...