The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) has scheduled four (4) oral hearings for the month of November 2017. The hearings will be held in the East Wing of the ...
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has granted the USPTO's motion for an award of its "expenses" in the BOOKING.COM case, pursuant to Section 1071(b)(3) of the Trademark ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark WHEN IT MATTERS for "retail department store services and online retail department store services," finding the mark likely to cause confusion with the identical mark ...
Earliest Possible Third Party Participation: Pre-examination pre‑issuance third party participation in Post Grant Review proceedings is a featured proposal in this updated revision of the previously circulated paper. See § VII, Pre-Examination Preissuance Submissions (page 73). ...
The Board dismissed a Section 2(d) opposition to registration of the design mark shown below left, finding it not confusingly similar to the registered design mark shown below right, both ...
The previous draft of this paper has been greatly expanded to include a discussion of potential practice changes in the wake of the Constitutional challenge posed by Oil States Energy Services, and ...
The USPTO has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (here) that would streamline the Trademark Rules of Practice by removing certain regulations concerning trademark interferences. The proposed action is consistent ...
Opposer HOOS, an LLC founded by University of Virginia graduate James Creekmore, opposed the application of intrastate rival Virginia Tech to register the mark HOKIE for various educational and entertainment services, on ...
Attached is a discussion draft of a paper concerning post grant patent challenges at the PTO in view of current case law, including a Supreme Court case to be argued next month. ...
The captioned paper (attached) explores patent validity challenges at the PTO are now under fire in the Restasis case, Allergan, Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.(on its way to the Federal Circuit), as ...