TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Recent TTAB Appeals Come Out? Here are three decisions issued by the TTAB last Friday, the first a Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusal, the ...
Northeastern Law School and the Boston Intellectual Property Patent Law Society (BPLA) will host a panel/roundtable discussion entitled "The Original Sin of Trademark Law: Failure to Function" on November 5th from ...
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A divided Board panel reversed a Section 2(d) refusal of MINIBAR SMARTSNAX for packaged snack food "for distribution through refrigerators and food storage cabinets having sensors to detect presence and removal ...
In an opinion of just over seven pages, the Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register CONSERVATIVE INSTITUTE for providing on-line information if the fields of politics class 35), entertainment ...
Finding that the purported word+design mark shown below is "merely an ornamental or informational feature" of Applicant Steven Schalk's "bumper stickers," the Board affirmed a failure-to-function refusal under Sections 1, ...
A TTAB judge once told me that in 95% of Section 2(d) cases, one can predict the outcome just from looking at the marks and the involved goods/services. Here are ...
The USPTO refused to register the mark RAINFOREST NUTRITION for dietary and nutritional supplements [NUTRITION disclaimed], finding a likelihood of confusion with the registered mark RAINFOREST ANIMALZ for "nutritional supplements." The goods overlap and ...
Despite applicant's 40 years of use of the phrase "THE VITAMIN SHOPPE," the Board affirmed four refusals to register the mark THE VITAMIN SHOPPE & V Design (in four variations) for ...
Despite applicant's 40 years of use of the phrase "THE VITAMIN SHOPPE," the Board affirmed four refusals to register the mark THE VITAMIN SHOPPE & V Design (in four variations) for ...