Concluding that substantial evidence supported the Board's finding that the marks MAYARI and MAYA, both for wine, are sufficiently dissimilar to avoid confusion, the CAFC affirmed the Board's dismissal of ...
In Top Ten No. (5) Life Techs. v. Promega Corp., the Court GRANTED certiorari, but only as to the Second Question Presented, which asks whether supplying a single, commodity component of ...
Lynne Beresford was a respected retired leader in the trademark field who capped thirty years of government service with a stint as Assistant Commissioner for Trademarks of the U.S. Patent and Trademark ...
In Cuozzo Speed Techs. v. Lee, __ U.S.__ (2016) (Breyer, J.), the Supreme Court in justification of the PTO’s “broadest reasonable interpretation” standard in IPR proceedings agreed with the USPTO that the possibility of ...
On Wednesday, June 22nd, the USPTO published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking entitled "Changes in Requirements for Affidavits or Declarations of Use, Continued Use, or Excusable Nonuse in Trademark Cases,"Federal ...
The once WIPO Deputy Director General James Pooley, near the end of his tenure, made serious charges against Director General Francis Gurry. A thorough, independent investigation was made by WIPO. ...
This Monday the Supreme Court Orders List is expected to announce whether certiorarihas been granted in two important cases, each with a much higher than average chance for grant of certiorari: ...
In Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. v. Covidien LP, __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. June 22, 2016)(Newman, J., dissenting from den. reh’g en banc), in the course of a denial of rehearing ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark INDI for various clothing items, including shirts and headwear, finding the mark likely to cause confusion with the registered mark INDY for “t-shirts” ...
Yesterday, in Immersion Corp. v. HTC Corp., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Taranto, J.), the panel concludes that a continuation application filed on the date of patenting is one that has ...