This Friday the Court is scheduled to consider grant of certiorari in Retirement Capital Access Management Co. LLC v. U.S. Bancorp, No. 15-591, where the firstQuestion Presented asks “[w]hether subject ...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has scheduled ten (10) oral hearings for the month of April, as listed below. Here are the first five (5). All of the hearings ...
The Board affirmed two refusals to register the mark EMDROPS for "dietary and nutritional supplements in liquid form which do not include effective microorganisms or efficient microbes," finding the mark ...
The next Top Ten Patent Cases will list as No. (5) “Limelight II”, Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc., S. Ct. No. 15-993, opinion below, Akamai Techs., Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., ...
Ruling that the marks IMÁGENES ESCONDIDAS and HIDDEN PICTURES are not "the same mark" for Section 2(f) purposes, the Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusal to register the ...
Law360 has now released its list of the largest patent law boutiques. The List is summarized in the pdf version of this note. The Top Ten List for 2015 showed ...
An undefined coined term for an element – i.e., an undefined “nonce word”-defined element – may trigger a “means plus function” interpretation of that element. To be sure, the case ...
In Top Ten No. (1) Impression Products v. Lexmark International, Inc., petitioner poses two Questions Presented to challenge the Federal Circuit’s continued denial of exhaustion based on (1) conditional sales ...
Not since Lighting Ballast has the en banc Federal Circuit issued as remarkable an opinion as in the recent Lexmark case. [FN*] It will be recalled that in Lighting Ballast ...
By my estimation, somewhere around 85% of all Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals that go to final decision at the TTAB are affirmed. Well, here are four appeals that were ...