Two recent decisions illustrate when an applicant may, and when it may not, successfully move to amend its opposed, geographically unrestricted application to one for concurrent use registration. In the ...
The Board had it up to here with Plaintiff Gary W. Stuckle's lack of cooperation in this opposition proceeding. His transgressions included failing to adhere to the Board's scheduling orders, ...
It's not easy to pick a viable trademark for beer, as the Wall Street Journal noted in a recent article, "Hopportunity Cost: Craft Brewers Brawl Over Catchy Names as Puns ...
The USPTO refused to register the mark FIRST TUESDAY under Section 2(e)(1) of the Trademark Act, deeming the mark merely descriptive of "lottery cards; scratch cars for playing lottery games" ...
Have you ever heard of Bjni? Me neither. The Board reversed a Section 2(e)(2) refusal to register BJNI, in the stylized form shown below, finding the mark not primarily merely ...
The Board affirmed a refusal to register the mark HERBAL ACCESS for "retail store services featuring herbs," on the ground that the mark is being used in connection with the ...
The Board dismissed an opposition to registration of the mark BOXME for "storage services for archiving data bases, images, and other electronic data," finding the mark not likely to cause ...
Mike Meller was a well known international patent attorney of the twentieth century who practiced in New York City. He was active in several professional associations, and known throughout the ...
The New York Intellectual Property Association will host a seminar entitled "Hot Topics in Intellectual Property Law" on Wednesday July 20, 2016, from noon to 5 PM, at the Princeton ...
Professor McCarthy responds below to the comments on this TTABlog post regarding his criticism of the TTAB's dilution analysis. I don’t agree with the commenters who argue that the T.T.A.B. ...