The Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(5) refusal of the product configuration mark shown below, finding the mark to be de jure functional for "“gun parts, namely, bottom metal for custom ...
Further to yesterday's email, Examiner data of the type made available by Justin Roettger is also available to the PTO leadership. According to a highly reliable source, the Office has ...
The Board denied Applicant Alpha Phi Omega's motion for summary judgment aimed at Opposer Omega SA's likelihood of confusion and dilution-by-blurring claims, finding that genuine issues of material fact existed ...
Tom Payne is now a Congressional aspirant in West Virginia in its Second District! A long time patent attorney, in 2012 Tom began a stint as a Patent Examiner. May ...
Congratulations to newly minted patent attorney Justin Roettger who, as a pro bono public service, has established a gratis use, easy to use website to gain specific details on any ...
In this Section 2(d) opposition, the Board granted Opposer Newegg’s motion for leave to prepare and serve a sur-rebuttal expert report. The Board refused to read FRCP 26(a)(2)(D) as prohibiting ...
Today in Carson v. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, __ Fed. App’x __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(per curiam)(Moore, Bryson, Reyna, JJ.), the panel manifested a Federal Circuit with too many judges as ...
Charles Townsend with his brother founded the San Francisco based firm of Townsend & Townsend. It became one of the country’s great patent boutiques of the second half of the ...
New Top Ten No. (2a), “Ariosa II”, Genetic Technologies Ltd. v. Merial L.L.C., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Dyk, J.), joins the Top Ten List as it raises issues now ...
MEET THE BLOGGERS is back for the twelfth time. Perhaps the best non-INTA event ever devised by woman or man, MTB XII will be held on Monday, May 23rd, 8 ...