Congratulations to Herb Wamsley, recently appointed by Circuit Judge Richard Linn to the Advisory Board of The Naples Roundtable which the jurist chairs. About The Naples Roundtable: The organization is ...
The Board sustained this Section 2(d) opposition to registration of the mark FLATIZZA for "pizza," finding that Applicant Janco, LLC had not used the applied-for mark in commerce prior to ...
Particularly since Bilski and continuing through its more recent patent-eligibility cases, the Supreme Court undergirds its denials of patent-eligibility to the concept that patents “preempt” future research, which is contrary ...
Congratulations. Vikrum, the new Chief of Staff of the United States Patent and Trademark Office who had originally been brought to the Patent Office under then Under Secretary David J. ...
Bob Hillman was an accomplished patent trial lawyer who will be remembered as a principal architect of the transformation of a historic, modest-sized Boston firm into the national patent powerhouse ...
The USPTO refused to register the mark PALMS FREE for "universal phone holders and harnesses," deeming the mark to be merely descriptive under Section 2(e)(1). Examining Attorney Christopher Law contended ...
Concerns continue to be expressed over the Patent Office declaration of “holidays” responsive to the massive December power outage as lacking statutory basis. See Ryan Davis,USPTO Response to Power Failure ...
Today in Green v. Merit Systems Protection Board, __ Fed. App’x __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(per curiam)(Lourie, Dyk, Hughes, JJ.), in the course of an affirmance of the MSPB, the panel demonstrated ...
The USPTO refused to register the mark E GAR, finding it merely descriptive of the goods: "Electronic Cigars, Namely, an electronic device to heat liquids to create a vapor for ...
The Board affirmed two refusals to register, on the Supplemental Register, the product configuration shown below for "Headphone cables sold as an integral component of headphones," on the grounds of ...