Mel Williams was one of the many leading patent attorneys to graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the George Washington Law School. He served for twenty-five years at United Technologies ...
“I want to be clear. The USPTO takes any allegation of wrongdoing very seriously. Any hour claimed as worked that is not worked is unacceptable.” -- Hon. Michelle K. Lee, ...
Ford Farabow was both an outstanding trial lawyer and a true gentleman. He was a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers who was internationally prominent as one of ...
Omega SA opposed an application to register the mark shown to the right, for jewelry, claiming a likelihood of confusion with its registered and common law marks (shown below) for ...
The Board sustained two oppositions, finding the term EURO, in the design forms shown below, to be primarily geographically deceptively misdescriptive of paint spray guns made in Taiwan. It also ...
The Board affirmed a Section 2(d) refusal of MT. RAINIER THE MOUNTAIN OF SEATTLE ESPRESSO & MILK and Design for "Milk beverages containing espresso coffee and milk; milk products containing ...
Al Steinmetz grew up in Pennsylvania Dutch country and stayed in that state to earn his first degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He gained his J.D. from Seton Hall. ...
A divided Board panel reversed a Section 2(d) refusal to register the mark THE RAIL & Design (shown below) for "restaurant and bar services," finding the mark not likely to ...
Yesterday in UCB, Inc. v. Yeda Research and Development Co., Ltd., __ F.3d __, 2016 WL 4698962 (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Newman, J.), the court reaffirmed the holding in Builders Concrete, Inc. v. Bremerton ...
Dick Winter was well known to the international patent community for his leadership of PCT International. He formed this venture following his 1985 retirement from corporate patent practice: spent most ...