Yours truly, The TTABlogger, will present a webinar entitled "Friendly Shores: A Guide to TTAB Practice for Foreign Trademark Owners," on Thursday, January 19th from 10 to 11 AM EST, ...
Robert H. Coggins has been appointed to the position of Administrative Trademark Judge at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Judge Ellen J. Seeherman retired from government service in December ...
With the appointment of Robert H. Coggins to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the retirement of Judge Ellen J. Seeherman, the Board’s membership remains at twenty-six (26) Administrative ...
By my recent estimation, somewhere around 90% of all Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals that reached the TTAB in 2016 were affirmed on appeal. Well, here are three appeals that ...
Congratulations to Marylee Jenkins, announced yesterday as Chair of PPAC, the Patent Public Advisory Committee. This is the start of her second term on the PPAC. Ms. Jenkins has held ...
In 2016, How Often Did the TTAB Affirm Section 2(d) Refusals? 2(e)(1) Mere Descriptiveness Refusals?
I reviewed the TTAB's FOIA page in an attempt to determine, or at least estimate, the percentage of Section 2(d) likelihood-of-confusion refusals and Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals, that were ...
Today in Phigenix, Inc. v. Immunogen, Inc., __ F.3d __(Fed. Cir. 2017)(Wallach, J.), in a case where Phigenix had unsuccessfully challenged a validity holding in a PTO Inter Partes Review, ...
Further to the note earlier today concerning speculation as to the successor to Michelle K. Lee as Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce in charge of the Patent Office, a highly ...
President Trump has already named Wilbur Ross as Secretary of Commerce-designate and on November 30, 2016, named Todd Rickets as his Deputy Secretary of Commerce-designate. Going down to the next ...
The Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(4) surname refusal of BUTTERFIELDS for auction and appraisal services. Applying the Benthin factors, the Board found that the applied-for mark is not a rare ...