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 ...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has scheduled three (III) oral hearings for the month of January, as listed below. The hearings will be held in the East Wing of ...
The captioned paper explains the writer’s theory of patent drafting where the claims include Section 101-challenged subject matter, a “law of nature”, “natural phenomenon” or an “abstract idea.” The paper ...
The PTO recently fell victim to a catastrophic power failure responsible for missed electronic filing dates during the period December 22-24, 2015. Is a deadline within that period met through ...