On Tuesday, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld an en banc decision of the CAFC, ruling that the USPTO is not entitled to recover its attorney's fees in an appeal from an ...
A TTAB judge once said to me that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the ...
In yet another failure-to-function case, the Board affirmed a refusal to register INTELLIGENCE OF THINGS as a service mark for supply chain management services, custom manufacture of electronics, and engineering services. ...
The CAFC pulled the plug on an appeal from a Board decision (here) that had dismissed a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark shown below (comprising goats ...
In what appears to be the first TTAB decision finding a color to be generic, the Board granted a petition for partial cancellation of a registration for the mark shown ...
Applicant Haden sought a registration on the Supplemental Register for the mark shown below, for "Medical and health care services, namely, medical treatment of allergies, asthma, immune disorders, and shortness ...
The USPTO refused to register the mark shown below, for "vodka," based on the applicant's failure to comply with a drawing requirement and its failure to amend the color claim ...
The Board dismissed this opposition to registration of the mark BLUE INDUSTRY for various clothing items, finding no likelihood of confusion with, and no likelihood of dilution of, various INDUSTRY-formative marks owned ...
On December 10, 2019 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time), the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) will host a webinar entitled "Constitutionality of Protecting Product Designs ...
The Board denied a motion to compel Applicant Princess Race Wear to produce the "metadata" for five photographs that applicant provided during discovery, because Opposer Chix Gear did not ask ...