The Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association (LAIPLA) is proud to announce that it is seeking applicants for the 2023 Diversity Fellowship. LAIPLA created the Diversity Fellowship to increase the ...
After the Board sustained Nnenna Lovette Nkanginieme's Section 2(d) opposition to registration of the mark LOVETTE for handbags, Applicant Lovette Appleton requested reconsideration, contending that the Board improperly found that, ...
On summary judgment, the Board sustained this opposition to registration of the mark BITVISION, in the form shown first below, for closed circuit TV security systems, concluding that the application ...
Entitlement to a statutory cause of action (f/k/a "standing") is a threshold issue in every inter partes Board proceeding. Oppose Energy Beverages failed to clear that relatively low hurdle in ...
The Board affirmed another Section 2(d) refusal, finding the mark shown first below, for "clothing, namely, shirts, hats, sweatshirts, shorts and sweatpants," likely to cause confusion with the registered mark ...
Therabody, Inc. opposed an application to register the mark THREEGUN (in slightly stylized form) for various medical devices and products, including massage apparatus, on the ground of likelihood of confusion with its ...
In the twelfth Section 2(d) reversal of 2022 (versus 156 affirmances), the Board overturned a Section 2(d) refusal to register the mark EPIGENE for "electronic database in the field of genes recorded ...
Petitioner JNF LLC was undoubtedly unhappy with the result of its petition to cancel a registration for the mark HAPPIEST HOUR for bar and restaurant services. JNF claimed prior use of THE HAPPIEST ...
In an exhaustive and exhausting opinion, the Board granted petitions to cancel two registration for the mark OLD SCHOOL for various clothing items, on the ground of abandonment. The Board found ...
Finding that Opposer Rapid Inc.'s star witness "had not only been dishonest with the Board, but he also engaged in spoliation of evidence," the Board threw out this Section 2(d) ...