Perhaps the single most unique idea for patent cooperation between Japan and the United States occurred in the 1980's in parallel with ill-fated patent harmonization treaty discussions in Geneva under ...
Congratulations to Neel Sukhatme who has recently joined the full time faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center with a focus on patent law. Prof. Sukhatme has degrees in Computer ...
Supposedly one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the goods. Here are four (IV) recent Section ...
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, ...