The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has scheduled eight final hearings for the month of May 2020. All of the hearings will be held via video conference. Briefs and other ...
In a rare Section 18 proceeding, the Board denied a petition to restrict and rectify Respondent GastonCo's registration for the mark codeRED & Design for "Batteries and battery chargers; Communications headsets ...
The USPTO issued a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register the mark BLOCKCHAIN DRILLING, finding it to be merely descriptive of "Drilling of offshore oil or gas wells utilizing blockchain technology ...
The Board dismissed the Section 2(d) claim in this opposition to registration of the mark MOKE & Design for "motor vehicles, namely, four wheel low speed land vehicles and automobiles," because ...
Wolf Greenfield IP Alert: by John L. Strand and John L. Welch. INTRODUCTION On April 23, 2020, the Supreme Court held that the federal Trademark Act (the Lanham Act) does ...
Future Wolf Greenfield associate and soon-to-be Notre Dame Law School graduate Kira-Khan McCarthy is enjoying an externship this semester at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Here are two concurrent ...
A public meeting of the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) was held online on April 17, 2020. The agenda and list of speakers may be found here. Here are the presentation ...
The Board affirmed a Section 2(d) refusal to register the mark shown below for various types of pillows, finding a likelihood of confusion with the mark UNO in standard character ...
In two decisions issued on the same day, the Board found the proposed mark AMERICAN OUTDOOR BRANDS CORPORATION to be primarily geographically descriptive of various goods and services mostly related to ...
A TTAB Administrative Trademark Judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal 95% of the time just by looking at the marks ...