Here we go again. Another product design mark failed to gain entry into the Hall of Registrations. The Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(5) functionality refusal of the configuration mark shown ...
Pundits say that Mr. Trump holds all the cards in the Republican Party. They do not take into consideration the very viable opening for a third party “Mountain Time Zone” ...
Here's a real yawner. The Board affirmed a refusal to register the mark BULLET for "Bicycle parts, components and accessories, namely, bicycle wheels, rims and spokes for bicycle wheels, hubs, ...
Medicines Co. Side Show: Yesterday, the full en banc Federal Circuit held its oral hearing in Medicines Co. v. Hospira to consider one of the many inequitable fact patterns that arise ...
Bob Frank was a New York patent attorney who had worked for GTE until 1971 when he moved to the Washington, D.C., area to join Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher. ...
The Government has now filed an amicus curiae brief in strong support of the position that the Leahy Smith America Invents Act overruled Metallizing Engineering. Like the amicus effort of ...
Applicant S9 Sports whiffed in its attempt to register the mark HIGH SCHOOL WORLD SERIES for, inter alia, "promoting sports competitions and/or events of others; promoting the goods and services ...
On April 29, 2016, the USPTO filed a motion (here) to voluntarily dismiss its appeal from the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in ...
Chuck Donohoe was formerly Executive Vice President and General Patent Counsel for Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and had been a fixture of the Washington, D.C., patent scene for decades, first ...
Today in Saertex France SAS v. Hexcel Reinforcements UK Ltd., [2016] EWHC 966 (IPEC)(Hacon, J.), as part of an invalidity ruling, the trial judge cites Lord Hoffmann in Lundbeck A/S ...