The Board affirmed a refusal to register the mark MAGIC SNOWBALL for "plush toy which looks like a snowball and contains a motion-activated LED" [SNOWBALL disclaimed] finding the mark likely ...
Whither the era of the prominent New York powerhouse patent boutique? Since the1990’s many of the leading New York patent boutiques have disappeared through merger or otherwise. Kali Hays presents a view of ...
Today in Calhoun v. General Services Administration, __ Fed. App’x __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(per curiam)(Prost, C.J., Moore, Taranto, JJ.), the panel provides further evidence that the court has too many ...
Miss World Limited opposed an application to register the mark THE WORLDS PAGEANTS for "entertainment in the,nature of beauty pageants," on the ground of likelihood of confusion with the registered ...
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 ...