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 ...
Today in “Ariosa II”, Genetic Technologies Ltd. v. Merial L.L.C., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Dyk, J.), the court followed its notorious Ariosa opinion to deny patent-eligibility to an invention ...
The Board granted a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark NOBLE HOUSE for furniture, ruling that Respondent Floorco had abandoned the mark. The Board held that use ...