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 ...
At the dawn of the Trump Administration The Naples Roundtable is launching a study of ways to improve the patent examination system, including ways to reward examiners for excellent work ...
Further to this morning’s announcement of a study of PTO procedures by The Naples Roundtable, two senior members of the profession have each responded, as below. Regards, Hal The ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark shown below, for varous clothing items and for soccer gear because applicant refused to disclaim the term DEUTSCHER FUSSBALL-BUND (translated as GERMAN SOCCER ...