The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has scheduled four (4) oral hearings for the month of February 2017. The first of the four hearings will be held at Southwestern Law ...
The USPTO refused to register the mark MERLIN for "timepieces and chronometric instruments," finding it confusingly similar to the identical mark registered for various articles of clothing. The Examining Attorney ...
In a 75-page opinion that includes a 12-page Appendix summarizing the record, the Board dismissed this opposition to registration of the mark TEQUILA as a certification mark for "distilled spirits, ...
Japan Patent Office Director Komiya was a featured keynote speaker at the recently concluded Naples Roundtable. The JPO website has posted a picture from this conference showing Director Komiya together ...
Here is a link to my January 19th webcast entitled "Friendly Shores: A Guide to TTAB Practice for Foreign Trademark Owners." You may also download the PowerPoint slide deck. To ...
Here is the second half of the TTABlog's "top ten" list of 2016 TTAB decisions. Part 1 may be found here. If you would have selected other cases for the ...
Almost everyone in the patent field has read the opinions of the late Judge Rich, but not everyone knows his personal background the way that John Witherspoon does. Mr. Witherspoon ...
The TTABlogger has once again chosen the ten TTAB decisions that he considers to be the most important and/or interesting from the previous calendar year (i.e., 2016). This is the ...
Thanks to Conference Chair Gary Hoffman and everyone else who made the recently concluded Naples Roundtable such a great success: JPO Commissioner Komiya: Of special note was the address of ...
Further to yesterday’s announcement of a Naples Roundtable study of PTO procedures and the response by two senior members of the profession, a third response has been received from a ...